Astro Cross: Flashback 1942 (was naming alien ships)

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This was a prediction for 1975, made in 1955, but with Bluo tech it could be produced as of game start as a functional concept/show piece.

The severe infrastructure damage of the war and invasion will probably mean it's the 50s anyway before it becomes part of daily life, though.

Here's another page from the same site, with benchmark items for 1942 prices:
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1942%20QF.htm

What Things Cost in 1942:
Car: $1,100
Gasoline: 19 cents/gal
House: $6,950
Bread: 9 cents/loaf
Milk: 60 cents/gal
Postage Stamp: 3 cents
Stock Market: 119
Average Annual Salary: $2,400
Minimum Wage: 30 cents per hour

While I'm at it, here's a couple pictures of a table-top model fusion reactor:


Naturally, the models included in military equipment have a metal enclosure with a small, heavy duty peephole viewport for visual inspection of the reaction, rather than a glass bell, which also serves as the mounting armature for the blue-tech additions that push the energy output over unity and into useful ranges. Jet turbine models use a similar functioning principle but have a flow-through design to exhaust energetic plasma through the turbine and out the rear of the aircraft rather than collecting the radiated energy directly with circulating coolant and electronic pickups.

Info on the RL device in the pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Edit: Video of one in operation:

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