Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the naval reserve base at Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island one morning last week, a small motor truck containing a radio transmitter set off for an unannounced point an hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer...
...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...
...trounced Marquette and Iowa, put up a brave front against Pittsburgh but could not muster enough strength even to dent the No. 1 team of the East until the last ten seconds of play when Pitt, in front 26-to-0, put its third-string men on the field. Final score: Pitt 26, Wisconsin...
...George Halas' Chicago Bears, runners-up in the National Football League last year: a game against their archrivals, the Chicago Cardinals, 34-to-28, before 21,000 spectators; at Wrigley Field, Chicago. With four victories and one defeat, the Bears last week led the Western Division of the league...
...Gyro-frequency: the gyration frequency of an electron in the earth's magnetic field...