Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about four years blind flying, now called instrument flying, has been a commonplace of U. S. air transport. Day after day planes ride the waves of radio beacons, staying unerringly on course when the pilot can see nothing beyond the cockpit window. But the radio beacon can guide a plane only to a point above its destination. If the airport is hidden by fog or sleet, the plane may crash. Hence the Government still forbids a passenger plane to fly into an airport where the ceiling is under...
Last week at Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...
...Passed a bill providing for purchase by the U. S. of phonograph records for the blind; sent it to the Senate...
TIME reported the American Academy of Optometry's $1,000 award to Dr. William Feinbloom, optometrist of Manhattan's West Side Hospital, for his telescopic spectacles with triple cylindrical (instead of spherical) lenses which in some cases enabled 98%-blind patients to see well enough to work. Zeiss telescopic spectacles, not new, have been shown helpful in about 3% of clinical cases. Dr. Feinbloom's development is new, still of debated importance. The Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight advised "strenuous protests" against Dr. Feinbloom's "socalled improvement." The American Foundation for the Blind...
...March of Time" dramatized one successful case of Dr. Feinbloom's. If the dramatization gave any blind listener false hope, TIME regrets. But also, if one sufferer has benefited from the Feinbloom development TIME rejoices. TIME counsels those interested in Dr. Feinbloom's spectacles to consult their eye specialists...