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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VOR/DMET station and see his compass bearing from that station appear in degrees on a dial. Then he sends a signal to the station, which replies by telling him his distance from it in nautical miles. By plotting the bearing and measuring off this distance on his chart, he can pinpoint his airplane's position and set his course accordingly...
...comparatively few airplanes or stations have the full distance-measuring equipment. But a navigator or pilot can get a fix by tuning in two stations and getting his bearing from each. His position is the point where the two bearing lines cross on the chart. VOR/DMET uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters...
This Committee, installed in spacious headquarters on the third floor of Pyne Administration Building, had on the walls of one of its rooms a huge chart, tracing the status of each sophomore with each club. A glance at this chart could tell the Committee who was "in trouble," who was not likely to receive a bid, and for these unfortunates the Committee performed near-miraculous service...
...many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...
...Kent cigarettes to cut down tar and nicotine and -as he says in the kind of phrase that sounds snappy around a boardroom table -give smokers "less of the things they have been smoking filters to get less of." Result, in the statistics that look wonderful on a boardroom chart: Kent's domestic sales zipped from 3.4 billion to 36 billion a year; Lorillard's stock went from 15⅛ to 89; Lorillard sales jumped from $203 million to close to $480 million in 1958; net income rose from $4,519,758 to an estimated $28.5 million...