Word: beams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After just 14 months at the controls of storm-tossed T.W.A., President Ralph S. Damon had the airline on the beam again. Last week he reported a profit of $3,708,845 for 1949, the first since 1945. Damon modestly gave most of the credit to "increased efficiencies within the company," notably an $859,000 saving from the elimination of an overhaul base at Newcastle, Del. But passenger revenues had also increased 7%, up to $78,558,162, partly due to the replacement of small and old DC-3s by new and bigger Constellations. T.W.A., which has 20 new Constellations...
...more; the atom-smashers are laying for them all over the place. Newest and most powerful of the smashers is Columbia University's cyclotron at Nevis, an estate at Irvington-on-Hudson that once belonged to James (son of Alexander) Hamilton. The 2,500-ton monster generates a beam of protons with 380 million electron volts of energy. Such voltage is too powerful for mere atom-smashing, which is considered scientific child's play nowadays. The Nevis machine was designed for probing deeper secrets of matter...
...lens focuses the scene being viewed on the front side of the photoconductor. A slender beam of electrons from an "electron gun" scans the rear side of the photo-conductor. When the electrons hit a brightly lighted area, a lot of them pass through. When they hit dark parts, only a few of them pass through. The transparent conducting layer collects the escaping electrons and passes them on in the form of a "video" current whose rapid fluctuations represent the light and shade of the picture. An ordinary television set turns the current into a copy of the scene which...
When the fattened-up electrons are making their last turn around the tube, they are deflected by special magnets and made to strike a tungsten target, knocking out of it a slender beam of enormously powerful X rays. In effect, a betatron is an outsized X-ray tube; the X. rays are its desirable product...
...rope served a more somber purpose. By nightfall it had been expertly cut and knotted into two nooses that swayed from the main beam of a double gallows in Fort Saskatchewan Jail, 20 miles away. Shortly after midnight, while a small group of witnesses looked on, the nooses were slipped over the black-hooded heads of two convicted murderers. The dark-suited little man, known professionally as Mr. Ellis, checked to make sure that the slipknots fitted snugly behind each man's left ear. Then he sprang the trap door and the prisoners plunged downward...