NEW PRODUCTS: 1 6,000 Nazi Tricks

What made Germany tick through six years of war despite skimpy resources and raw materials? After V-E day, hundreds of scientists, technicians and researchers from U.S. industry, started fine-tooth-combing Germany for the answer. From abandoned mine shafts, underground storehouses, and even river beds came documents, equipment and gadgets. This week officials concerned with the search lifted the veil from some of the 16,000 machines and processes that showed how cleverly the enemy had improvised and improved. Some of them:

ΒΆ The magnetophone, a lightweight sound-recording machine, using plastic tape coated with a special magnetic iron oxide instead of...

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