Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winnipeg shop to its corps of well-drilled, 9540-125 Ib. hostesses, Trans-Canada Air Lines is piloted by 40 veteran Canadian airmen who were instructed for a year by U. S. airline veterans. First scheduled night flights last week followed a course that had an emergency field every 35 miles, a major airport with radio range every...
These are a few of the very many very personal opinions of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, extraordinary British biologist, prophet and philosopher. His scientific specialty is the application of mathematics to biology, a field in which he has won some renown. A bald, burly, tweedy, shaggy man, he admits he is dogmatic. His reputation for epigrammatic discourse is such that on his travels reporters swarm around him, work him for quotable gems...
Biding his time, he is working on another application of his system, an invasion of the phonograph field. Capable of a wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...
Next day at a stockholders' meeting in Chicago, Chairman Sewell L. Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., which does about 50% of the nation's plaster business, was asked about the entry of Celotex Corp. m the field (TIME, March 6). Said Chairman Avery: "Monopoly in the U. S. is a joke...
When the race was over, 21,000 astonished fans realized that thoroughbreds are thoroughly unpredictable. The mighty Stagehand, a notoriously slow starter, lacked the stretch-running drive to overtake the leaders this time, finished three lengths behind speedy Bull Lea and a half length behind Marshall Field's Sir Damion...