Word: networks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere breathed its spell upon him. This would never do! Death and the graveyard spun their eery way through the network of his brain. An owl screeched in the German Museum. His mind played pranks and he looked down the dismal stretches to the rain-swept pavement below. Suicide...
...code message from the Los Angeles headquarters of his company-Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is chief radio engineer (TIME, July 14)-travel across the U. S., relayed through 20 ground stations to the line's New York office. His company's nation-wide network, largest operated by any single airway system in the U. S.,* was completed. More powerful stations at Columbus and Albuquerque can be used to speed messages "overhead," in stead of through all the intermediate points. Next step will be the installation of still stronger transmitters at New York and Los Angeles...
Still another subway, parallel to and west of the present units, is being built by the municipal government. Its completion will bring the total trackage of the three systems up to 688 mi., the largest city transportation network in the world. Without its vast, rumbling traction arteries which sell 4,210,000 rides a day, New York would be paralyzed. Hence few New Yorkers were not interested, last week, in a plan proposed by Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer of the Transit Commission for the city to buy back, for $489,804,000, operating control of all overhead and underground transportation...
...outlets for his product. Last spring, Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord started the general slash of airplane prices by marking down his Stinson planes and Lycoming motors (TIME, March 3). Last week he announced formation of Century Air Lines, Inc. to fly trimotored Lycoming-Stinson transports over a network of plane-per-hour schedules radiating from Chicago...
...order that the Yard and the network of walks in the Yard may remain the University's property, public notices of its intention to dispute the right of public thoroughfare, or acquisition for public purposes of any of the lands and streets now included among the possessions of the institution have been placed in various parts of the Yard by the University...