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...Signal Corps, and his omnivorous curiosity led to a notable invention: a system for transmitting several messages simultaneously over existing electric power lines. In 1922, nearing retirement, he took his ideas and his patents to the North American Co. utilities combine, which backed him in launching Wired Radio, Inc., a kind of competitor to the booming fad for wireless radio. But not until 1934, the year of his death, did the general think up a catchy new name, combining the sound of music with the sound of the popular camera called the Kodak...
Muzak is still conducting such tests, and still crowing over the results. At a firm called Precision Small Parts Inc. in Charlottesville, Va., for example, Muzak spent three months last year testing six women who spent their dreary days deburring very small items with dental drills. With Muzak in their ears, they deburred 16.8% more than before. Other tests showed that if music can make people produce more, it can also make them buy more. Sedately paced melodies in a supermarket slowed down customers enough so that they spent 38% more money...
Councilor David E. Sullivan said the ordinance was proposed after community activists complained that Arthur D. Little, Inc.--a Department of Defense contractor--is planning to build new laboratory facilities...
...Peking has also consented to let a Dallas-based firm called Leisure & Recreation Concepts, Inc., build a $1 million amusement park near the coastal town of Shantou to be named Dragon Lake, complete with Ferris wheels, swan boats and an electronic arcade...
...block last month, there was no shortage of eager bidders. Ziff-Davis, a subsidiary of the Ziff Corp., was offering for sale twelve consumer magazines and twelve technical and travel publications, most of them leaders in their markets. Among those interested were the New York Times Co., Time Inc., Hearst, CBS and ABC. The massive sell-off was accomplished in just 24 hours last week, when CBS purchased the consumer group for $362.5 million, and Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch bought the trade publications for $350 million. Although the cash may have sounded middling by the standards of current Wall...