Word: hums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westinghouse survey of its South American consumers revealed that 1) housewives commonly install electric refrigerators in their parlors; 2) sales of improved electric fans slumped because South Americans like the loud hum of the old models...
Bred in the academic tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
...feet, in the bright, clear air just above an alabaster overcast, boomed United Air Lines Trip 21, bound for Chicago with 13 passengers, a crew of three. Over Lansing, Ill. (18 miles southeast of Chicago), handsome Captain Phil Scott, onetime University of Minnesota hockey captain, heard the hum of the Chicago beam in his earphones. By that time it was dark. Passengers and crew had seen the unforgettable sight of the setting sun turning the gleaming white cloud layer to a glory of gold. Now the stars were out, the cloud layer black...
...after a 17-month period in which not a single life was lost. But Pilot Fey's flying friends thought they already knew the answer. The beam must have failed just as he turned off into the "A" zone to head south. Angling back on to the steady hum of the beam before heading south to the airport, he should have heard the cheeping dot-dash of the "A" until he picked up the steady hum of the course in his earphones. Oldtimer that he was, he would never have run across the course into the "N" zone (dash...
Thaddeus F. B. Wasielewski of Milwaukee, Democrat, 35, 6 ft. 2, 204 lb., won over loudmouthed, rancorous, cankerous Representative John C. Schafer. (Even Republican colleagues used to whistle and hum while Schafer was making one of his splenetic speeches.) "I feel I ought to pinch myself," said young Wasielewski last week...