Word: informa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complex dead-reckoning system that measures the airplane's speed by means of radar pulses reflected from the ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
Recently, Roy E. Larsen, President of TIME Inc., was quoted in this connection in a booklet we published about advertising. Said Mr. Larsen: "Our magazines are dedicated to" the distribution of informa tion - and this applies to their advertising as well as to their editorial pages. Just as the work of our world could not go on without the swift ex change of news - so would our economy, grind to a halt without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods." The advertisements in TIME'S International editions, like those in other U.S. publications distributed overseas, constitute...