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...wirephoto. Copy for broadcast is fastened to a revolving cylinder. An electric eye records the varying lightwaves reflected by the different shades of black, converts them into sound signals for broadcasting. Tuned to the proper frequency, receiving sets pick up these signals, reconvert them to electrical impulses which bombard a roll of paper. The result: the chemically treated paper develops an impression much as a photoprint reacts from light waves. Fine type, action pictures and advertisements come through with amazing clarity. (Another facsimile process, developed by Finch Telecommunications, Inc., will be demonstrated this week to newspapermen in Manhattan...
...fund-raising company, the John Price Jones agency, to help him raise the $7,500,000 he wants for improvements, assuring Jones of about 4% of the take. The Jones men, given office space among the plaster busts in a storeroom back of a medieval gallery, set out to bombard press and public with good reasons for helping the Met build. Among the best: 1) Taylor's showmanship (no admission fees, a junior museum, subway ads, fresh paint), has boosted annual attendance from about 1,000,000 in 1939, to over...
Electronic jammers are high-frequency radio transmitters which bombard a radar installation with radio waves of the radar's own frequency, thereby obscuring the detectable echo on the radar viewing scope. Allied bombers and ships were armed with these electronic jammers, labeled as "Carpet", for use in foiling detection. For defensive purposes, particularly against enemy air-borne radar, very powerful long-distance, ground-based jammers, called "Tuba", were used...
...center of the Pacific front the Navy shook a heavy fist at Japan's front door. One of the most powerful task forces the Pacific has ever seen reached out to within 1,200 miles of Tokyo, sent off carrier planes to bombard Marcus Island...
...land wars or sea wars. World War I was quite definitely both, but mostly landlocked. Peace-minded Congresses (and most U.S. citizens) thought wishfully that the Navy could insure the U.S. against war. The "bluewater" U.S. Navy hoarded its thin appropriations for its armored warships, which it planned would bombard not enemy beaches but enemy warships, as in the Battle of Jutland. The Marines, always conscious of their traditional role, got nothing when they tried to get funds for the small landing boats which are the key to beachhead operations...