Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week New York was preparing to catch up. Required by a new State law was safety education in all public schools...
...phonographs. On the market, but little appreciated by the public at the time, was a gadget known as a Record Player, which could convert any radio into a practical, high-fidelity phonograph. If, argued Advertising Manager Joyce, more Record Players could be sold, everybody who owned a radio might catch the itch. Upshot of this idea: the Victor Record Society. Membership (at $14.95) in the Society, entitled the member to a $14.95 Record Player and $9 worth of Victor records. It also included a subscription to the Victor Record Society Review, whose pages dangled constant temptations before the eyes...
...often at odds with U. S. airlines, last week sent them an amiable invitation: to submit bids for mail contracts on two experimental hauls, a 465-mile route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and a 413-mile loop from Pittsburgh through Clarksburg and Huntington, W. Va. and back to Clarksburg. Catch: without landing, the mailplanes must pick up and deliver air mail at towns scattered from ten to 30 miles apart on each route...
Always interesting to aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline...
...fighting branches, is being brought to fighting strength with 1,250 modern planes on hand, 1,050 on order, 2,320 in sight by the end of fiscal 1940.* Emphasis in new construction was recently shifted from heavy bombers to light bombers and attack planes, in order to catch up with foreign developments...