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...addition to the contracts already awarded, Mr. Farley last week asked for bids on ten new routes, as well as on two of those rejected, to be opened late this month. Thus the new airmail map, as he contemplates it, will embrace some 28,500 mi., which is 3,300 mi. more than was routed before cancellation. Because of curtailed schedules, however, there will actually be 19,000 fewer miles flown daily under the new system than under...
...tall, 35 ft. thick at the middle, tapering up to a slim spire and down almost to a point. Total cost of the venture was close to $500,000. WLW's programs should be picked up by an ordinary set under any conditions within a 2,500-mi. radius, under good conditions anywhere in the world. Other radiocasters and the Federal Radio Commission feared the new giant might "blanket the dial," drowning out less powerful signals by failing to stay within its assigned channel of 700 kilocycles. For months test signals have been broadcast before daybreak while the Commission...
...valve is a shutter which opens and shuts 1,200 times per second. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye"). There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10,000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...
...topic which agitated everyone in town from the youngest bell hop at the Brown Hotel to booming President Whitefoord R. Cole of Louisville & Nashville R. R. was: which 20-odd of the 124 Derby eligibles would go to the barrier on Saturday? Which one would for 1¼ mi. run faster than any other, have a horseshoe of roses hung round its neck by the Governor of Kentucky, its name painted beside its 59 predecessors on the pillars of the Churchill Downs pergola, its fame recorded in racing history...
Penn. Franklin Field was one vast, miserable mud puddle, but 5,000 spectators turned out in the rain to see the ½mi. anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile...