Word: metered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further precaution a CO meter to register presence of the gas as low as .02% was perfected by the Navy and Mine Safety Appliances Co. The device may be installed on the instrument board of any plane. A special type, with an auto-matic alarm, was designed for the U. S. S. Akron...
...plunge at the start of a race baffled Helene Madison till, after a year of trying, she learned the trick in five minutes. That was five years ago, when she was 13. Last week she won four championships (440-yd. swim, 100-meter, one-mile and 880-yd. free style), caused herself to be mentioned as anchor girl on a 1932 relay team that might beat the Olympic record...
...Echo-Meter. From its great hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., where it had undergone winter overhaul, the Navy dirigible Los Angeles emerged last week, its new coat of silver paint gleaming in the sun, and cruised in preparation for its flight to Panama for the Navy war games. As new equipment the Los Angeles carried a radio-echo-log, a finely adjusted altimeter which indicates the height of the craft by the time required for a radio signal to reach the ground and rebound to a receiving device...
...Westinghouse Research Laboratories, East Pittsburgh, Pa. to show them a small contraption which could analyze the street car's rattle-bang-clank-screech. The machine consists of a microphone, an amplifier, a filter circuit which allows only one wavelength at a time to pass to the meter for measuring. Since the machine weighs only 60 lb., is independent of outside current, it can easily be transported from one noisy place to another...
...that the small consumer . . . should receive the greatest protection and consideration." The New York Real Estate Board entered objections. Mayor James John Walker ordered his law officers to fight the change before the Public Service Commission, to demand a rate of 4¢ per kilowatt hour and no meter charge...