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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty of diplomatic language is that it can be taken several ways. Particular beauty of Minister Alvarez's wording was that "places from which the raiders come" can mean a number of places. Well known is the fact that many Rightist bombers have come from Italy, that a large proportion of Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from...
Until Thomas Alva Edison tackled the problem of multiple telegraph messages, the most that could be sent over one wire at a time was two. Edison increased the number to four. Later, Western Union engineers developed the "Multiplex" system which enabled them to transmit four communications simultaneously in each direction. "Voice carrier" currents of different frequencies, in Multiplex groups of four, recently made possible 32 messages in each direction over a four-wire circuit. Last week, Western Union announced that an electrical tone generator borrowed from a musical instrument had tripled the figure...
...success. The currents are separated in pitch by 300 cycles. A generator adapted to Western Union's purposes costs about $1,000. By this technique the company sends telegrams from Manhattan to Chicago, Washington, Buffalo, Atlanta. Practical effect of the Hammond-type generator will be to reduce the number of wires necessary for intercity service, thus saving a sizable chunk of maintenance costs as the unnecessary wires are retired from service...
Next day the surge continued, with Allied Chemical leading the way with a $9 gain. On volume of 1,457,000 shares, the industrial averages went through the previous rally peak of 121 to 121.34. To Dow Theorists, of whom there are an immense number (TIME, June 20), this was enormously significant-if the rail averages confirmed the industrials by breaking through their previous high of 23.5, it meant a decisive change of trend. Two days later, rails, highballing after industrials, went to 24.9. To Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen...
Although The Dark River has the conventional writing and characterizations of melodramatic fiction and introduces an unusual number of picturesque poses (silhouettes atop sea cliffs, arm-around-tree pensiveness), it still rates above the average South Sea island romance. This may be credited, not to its authentic setting-most popular fiction nowadays has that-but rather to its authors' genuine sympathy for native Tahitians...