Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gust tunnel is important because all airplanes experience their maximum loads when they encounter sudden gusts or "bumps." The gust tunnel faces upward and a small model is shot across 'its top at 50 m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...
...lose his throne. England can not have such a king and be England still. The wind is whisking the newspapers around the room, under my feet they rip and tear and rustle. Camera shots, headlines. Where are there headlines in Shakespeare? Enter Henry Bolingbroke. Enter Stanley Baldwin. "The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin spent a quiet week-end at Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves...
...Manhattan camera stores last week were taking advance orders for rental of 16-mm. newsreels of the entire Coronation for home projectors at 50?-$1 a reel, $1-$2.50 with sound...
Foto looks like Look.* Dell Publishing Co.'s feeler into the picture magazine field, Foto is billed as "the Candid Camera Magazine," launched as a 10? bimonthly. If successful, it will supplement Dell's lucrative Modern Screen, Radio Stars and Ballyhoo. Editor West F. Peterson, out of Illinois via the University of Wisconsin and its Daily Cardinal, ordered a press run of 400,000 for Foto's, first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York...
...Dinwiddy's inability to establish his identity when arrested, drunk, for breaking up the sporting goods department with a shotgun. Love and astrology are finally correlated at a store party, assisted by music from Phil Harris & Kenny Baker, a lovely dance by Miss Whitney and some low camera ballet legs. Best bit part: Romo Vincent's imitation of Charles Laughton...