Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short-wave broadcasting power is the 40 kw. of General Electric Co.'s station W2XAF at South Schenectady and Westinghouse's station W8XK at Saxonburg, Pa. But General Electric is building a 100 kw. transmitter to improve the service it sends on directional beam to South America. Germany lists its short-wave transmitter that operates from Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks at 40 kw. Great Britain's Daventry, with top power at 50 kw., sends its short-wave voice round the world. The Netherlands has two 60 kw. stations at Hilversum, which operate with unique beams...
...50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier...
...days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind and men who owe their livelihood to them. The sight of Ben Pine and Angus Walters behind those two wheels is a fine one; and the world will be missing something when the influx of beam trawlers, Diesels and the hustle and bustle of today make it no more than a memory...
While capering with his friends during a factory rest period last spring, a 15-year-old London boy clambered to an overhead beam. Just as he dropped to the ground one of the workers playfully raised in his direction a thin steel rod, five feet long, three-eighths of an inch in diameter. The rod pierced the lower part of his back, slid up through his body, stopped at the left side of the chest wall. The boy was transfixed like a chicken on a spit, suffered neither shock nor collapse. One of the workers calmly grasped the rod, pulled...
From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...