Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until we learn how. A safety device you don't know is worse than no safety device...
...Chosen Instrument. One of the things Pat Patterson's economics division has told him is that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only...
...United Ministry to Students certainly joins with the students of Harvard in opposition to racial discrimination, regardless of its point of origin. However, the failure of moral embargoes in wordly affairs should teach us to implement moral opposition with every instrument available. Although the United Ministry cannot endorse the right of any student to patronize night clubs, we are very willing to join with all other groups in an attempt to close down the Club 100. As we see it, at least three issues are involved in the Club 100 controversy, and although the first is the primary point...
...soon could such a system be put in operation? The Civil Aeronautics Administration is already installing "Omnidirectional Ranges" to mark out the lanes. The chief component now lacking is a satisfactory instrument for marking out the blocks. A.T.A. says that the electronic principles to perform this service are already known. It hopes that its idealized blueprint will stimulate designers to put them to practical work...
...especially in thick weather) by spacing arriving planes. Two different methods are being tested to get them safely down out of the crowded air. One method: GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) watches the plane with radar while operators on the ground "talk" it down through the soup. The other: ILS (Instrument Landing System) guides the plane down a slanting radio beam...