Word: dot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading directors (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, after the suicide of the Minister of Interior, officials of the Ministry of Interior, which controls the police and communications systems, broke the French law insuring non-censorship of cables and for several hours denied correspondents in France the use of dot-dash communication, forcing them to telephone the facts abroad...
...patents expired in 1923, Hoskins received large royalties from heating appliance manufacturers. Expansion of the electric appliance field, how ever, more than compensated for lost royalties. With total assets of less than $2,000,000, Hoskins last year made $429,000. Slow-spoken, tousled, deliberate, Metalman Marsh wears polka-dot ties, is rarely without a cigar. Before last week he had never received scientific kudos. Never plagued by labor troubles at the Hoskins plant, he worked out an employe compensation plan 13 years ago whereby a generous slice of profits is distributed to his 200 workers every year. Many...
Starting on the dot at 10:30 as if by prearranged schedule with bonfires in the Yard, it gathered momentum rapidly. Before the Yard proctors could get to work, growing masses of Freshmen had slipped outside the Yard and were loose in the Square...
...Zworykin sender the image to be televised falls on a small sheet of mica covered with millions of microscopic dots of photosensitive cesium. Each tiny dot receives an electric charge according to the amount of light that falls on it. A beam of electrons shot from a cathode tube and controlled by rapidly oscillating magnetic fields weaves back & forth across the sheet of mica 6,000 times per second. The beam discharges the electropositive tension in the dots, and the changing pattern of this discharge modulates a current passing through the sheet. The modulated current, fed into a radio transmitter...
Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...