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...amateur snapshotters are Fairchild cameras. An inexpensive model costs more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fairchild Fission | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...newly-formed Union of University Teachers must justify its existence. For in large part its avowed functions overlap those of an elder organization, the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOK FORWARD, YOUNG TEACHERS | 11/12/1935 | See Source »

...plot is divided into no less than four main tracks which scarcely overlap but the leads of each are sufficiently amusing. The honors of the film go to Ned Sparks who suggests that the story of Aunt Jemima be told using the name of Aunt Delilah as the pegro cook who first had the recipe for the best tasting pancake batter in the world and to Warren Williams as the ichthyologist who falls in love with Colbert but cannot marry her because the daughter has fallen in love with him and the marriage would separate the mother and daughter which...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...misunderstanding has arisen since the Buckley Fund and Cambridge Aid, which have been listed separately in the catalogue, overlap each other. Each year a certain sum of money is alloted from the Buckley Fund to Cambridge Aid. Steps have been taken to show the relation clearly between the two grants; and the new scholarship catalogue bears them as the Cambridge Buckley fund and the Buckley Scholarships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTIRE BUCKLEY FUND AWARDED SAYS HANFORD | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

...Dental School. Its province will be trifold; to promote important dental research; to act as a clearing house for such of that research as is important to other fields; and to provide official contacts through which the Dental School can readily get assistance for its research problems that overlap the other departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN RESEARCH MEN NAMED TO COMMITTEE | 10/10/1934 | See Source »

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