Word: meter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone on the machine. When the phone rings, a mechanism lifts the receiver and turns on a phonograph record. The owner's own recorded voice announces that he is out, asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner returns, a meter tells him how many calls have come in, and a wire recorder repeats the messages (up to 60 minutes of them). The wire can be erased and used over again. Retail price...
During the war, FCC took over a 160-meter amateur band for the use of loran, the aerial navigational device (TIME, March 18, 1946). This week there was good news for some 80,000 U.S. hams (amateur radio operators): FCC was giving part of the band back. Hereafter, U.S. hams,* whose ranks increase by 200 every month, will have a little more elbow room for their incessant chattering with the men & women of every continent...
Indoor Blaze. The band was not through. Before the two-mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest...
...present one-hour limit on side streets doesn't give the average shopper enough time to make all his purchases without coming back to renew the meter," Dow explained. A two-hour limit might also attract new customers to Square stores, since it would be possible for them to park their cars a few blocks away and make all their purchases within the meter time-limit, he added...
David E. Lillenthal of Adams House and Rockville, Md.: Assistant Editorial Chairman of CRIMSON; Unofficial Counsel to the Sub-Committee of the Unofficial Committee Investigating the Council Committee on Food; Ping Pong; 3-Meter Dive...