Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in the ionosphere ties in with the research of Professor Harry R. Mimno. Mimno is sending short-wave radio beams into the sky, to study how they bounce off the upper layers of the air. What he finds may change the future of radio transmission...
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...Office of Defense Transportation. ¶ The Maritime Commission's operations involving shipping purchases, sales, loans and subsidies. ¶ Direction of the Public Roads Administration, now in the Federal Works Agency. ¶ Control of the Coast Guard, now in the Treasury Department. ¶CAB's job of making air safety rules...
...joint owner with Pan American Airways Corp. of South America's Panagra). Of the total, President Joseph Peter Grace Jr. had already agreed to buy 174,000 National shares. Joe Grace, who has headed the shipping company since 1946, thought it should branch out even more in the air-travel field. National also was dickering for Pan Am to buy 346,000 shares on its own hook, and agree to interchange some routes and equipment with National. Neither company would have control, though both together would easily control National...
Most startling, perhaps, for U.S. moviegoers are the shots of India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...