Word: codeless
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From the depths of space-too deep to be reached by astronomers' light-telescopes-mysterious bodies continually bombard the earth with radio waves. No one knows much about these tuneless, codeless, cosmic broadcasts, but the National Bureau of Standards hopes to find out more. Last week, at Sterling, Va., 40 miles from Washington, Standards was building a radio observatory to study the waves and their origin. In charge of the observatory is young (35) Grote Reber, who broke into radio astronomy by developing a hobby...
...bituminous coal producers had signed the code but they accounted for almost one half the nation's annual output. The National Bituminous Coal Commission gave laggards a vigorous prod by promising strict enforcement of the Act's Section 14, which prohibits the purchase of codeless coal not only by the Government but by all private agencies serving the Government, such as PWA contractors and mail-carrying railroads...
...Continuation of a codeless, unenforced NRA under a skeleton staff until April 1, 1936-a proposition promptly passed (264-to-121) by the House but threatened with defeat in the Senate by those who wanted NRA's bones more quickly buried...
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