Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this principle the Bureau of Standards has constructed an "atomic clock" that has nothing to do with the erratic earth. The present model is accurate to one part in 10 million. An improved model, the Bureau thinks, should be accurate to one part in 100 million; it would vary one second in about three years. This is better than the earth, whose revolutions vary, from one day to another, by one part in 20 to 30 million...
Parlor War. The television price war (TIME, Jan. 3) got hotter. RCA unveiled its big new 16-in. set at a price of $495 ($200 below today's closest competitive model). Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.'s President Benjamin Abrams promised a 16-in. table model "within 60 days" for only $400, and slashed the present price of the loin. table model by $30. The Hallicrafters Co. said it would do even better; it promised a 16-in. remote control receiver...
Married. David Rose, 38, conductor-composer (Holiday for Strings'); and Betty Bigelow, 21, ex-Manhattan model; he for the third time (No. 1, Martha Raye, No. 2, Judy Garland), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...foot of his bed (which now stands in his studio so that he can work propped up in it) was the focal point of Matisse's new labors: a working model of the chapel he is designing for a Dominican home for convalescent girls not far from his house in Vence...
Despite Christmas shopping, record sales were off 40% for the year from 1947. Sales of phonographs, already hit by television sales, were also down. In Manhattan, one desperate dealer offered up to $50 worth of records free with every table model and $200 worth with every radio-phonograph console...