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Lunch hour was over. The convicts-134 of them-sprawled in two long rows stretching from the prison chuck wagon. Four hard-eyed mounted riflemen watched them. Six other armed guards waited near by. The stockade-Cummins Prison Farm in southeast Arkansas-was three miles away. Here were pea fields where the convicts had been working all morning. They were a tough crew, murderers, robbers, rapists, kidnappers-men like Frank Conley, who at 34 had a 21-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; like Percy Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping...
...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...
Cost of transforming Little Pea Island into a transmitting base will run around $500,000. The control house is being outfitted to take care of ten men, in case a storm prevents passage to the mainland...
...Philco's extremely light pickup, a rounded sapphire point almost floats in the record groove, transmits the groove's vibrations to a tiny mirror mounted above it. The mirror, jiggling imperceptibly, picks up a beam from a pea-sized bulb, which it transmits to a photoelectric cell. The cell converts the light waves into the same sort of electric impulses transmitted by an ordinary pickup. Philco claims that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal...
...these 15 men were the only ones to use the Littauer Center, they would rattle around like pea in a stone pod. Actually, there is a faculty of 17 men, and last year 188 students drawn from the Business School, Law School, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, attended seminars in the Center's luxurious conference rooms. And in addition the Center houses all men giving graduate, instruction in Economics and Government...