Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your David Sarnoff July 23 article was terrific. The cover itself was close to being a masterpiece. While being ostensibly a picture of General Sarnoff on a background of RCA 45 r.p.m. multicolored records (the "5-inch record with the 6-inch hole," as it was first laughingly referred to), it was, to a radio engineer, a greatly enlarged artist's representation of the face of one type of RCA color television picture tube. This tube has red, blue and green dots in a mosaic pattern similar to Artist Chaliapin...
That sharp hydrographic boundary between the rain and the desert looks to the bureau's engineers like the most important fact about the Western U.S. They long to punch a hole and let the water of Oregon flow south through graceful canals. In 1948, the bureau got congressional authority to make a "preliminary reconnaissance," which has now produced a fat printed report packed with figures, maps and diagrams. It has not been made public, probably because California is afraid of the effect the report may have on its struggle with Arizona for the last dribbles of water...
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...back and added fuel to his "anti-trust" fire by calling the boycott "a conspiracy in restraint of trade," conveniently overlooking the fact that the N.C.A.A. had enlisted the cooperation of the TV industry in its program. Murray was still not worried. He had an ace in the hole...
...little after 10 p.m., July 30, Kerans ordered "Slip cable!" Minutes later his ship was on her way. Soon after, the Communists guns opened up and Kerans felt a shell whoosh past his neck, but the Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing...