Word: dot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million-and-a-half pleasure craft, of which some 400,000 are motor boats, dot the waters of the U. S. Because of increased leisure and the creation of large artificial lakes as a result of Federal dam-building, the U. S. brotherhood of pleasure boatmen has expanded considerably in the past two years...
...twelve times the normal load), oil, food, hotel suite, weather and compass course. Jones furnished American Airlines with good publicity for its southern low altitude route across country. Like the misdirected Douglas Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their airport cribs...
...Juan Negrin announced he would go on the air at Barcelona, short-waving to the world. Punctually at the appointed hour Rightist bombers,. Rightist radio interference and Dr. Negrin all spoke up. As a broadcast the speech was ruined, but cables carried Dr. Negrin's words by dot & dash. The Leftist Premier, seeking to ward off a peace perhaps soon to be dictated to Spain by the Great Powers which dictated to Czechoslovakia, keynoted to the world public...
...Chick Builder, Calf Builder, Turkey Builder, Turkey Finisher. . . . On such products and the more familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years of boom and depression, General Mills...
...heart of "Johnny" Green's invention is his use of a tiny beam of light and a photo-electric cell. Whether in the transmitter or in the linotype activator, the light is focused on the coded dot combinations and reflected into the photocell. The varying combinations cause correspondingly varying pulsations in the photocell. These pulsations actuate the appropriate mechanisms in the telegraph printer and in the linotype (or Intertype). Its inventor claims that the speed of the Semagraph is limited only by the speed of the linotype. The number of teletype printers that can receive Semagraph copy from...