Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hotfoot to Washington went fruit growers and commission merchants, fearing higher rates on the mass of facts & figures which they flash by wire daily. Brokers feared for their leased wire systems; railroads, for their ancient and exclusive contracts with Western Union; newspapers and news services, for their favorable press rates. A delegation of Manhattan messenger boys, afraid that code wages would be too low and code hours too long, went to Washington and were forced to pass the hat for train fare home. But the Telegraph & Cable Code hearings quickly reverted to the old family feud between Postal, which does...
...light valve." Inside the valve is a shutter which opens and shuts 1,200 times per second. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye"). There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10,000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...
Lightning's energy amounts to some 1,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours in a year, should some day be harnessed by man. Anatomy of a lightning flash: a "leader" stroke shoots from a negatively charged cloud-bottom to positively charged Earth; the main stroke traces the leader's path in the opposite direction. New photographs with a special speed camera show the leader stroke varying in length from 1.6 to 4.7 miles, in speed from 810 to 19,000 miles per second.-Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, University of Capetown...
Johny Kelly gets away from the mark like a flash, after a lunch of sugar, Every mile or so he takes a pill form his little bottle and stokes himself. His bodily machine going under forced oxygen draft with an almost diabetic supply of fuel, he returns to the Athens of America only a few minutes behind the non-Biochemical Finn, Komonen...
...party in the tenth row. During some excitement caused by one cf the wrestlers being hurled from the ring, Cameraman Corvelli popped his flashbulb, aimed his lens at Junior Roosevelt. The latter saw him, ducked forward, but too late. Grinning, Cameraman Corvelli trotted toward an exit. In a flash Roosevelt Jr., boiling mad, was out of his seat and at the cameraman's heels. He over-took him in the lobby, spilled him to the floor, jumped up & down on the camera. Police intervened, companions led Junior Roosevelt away...