Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girls on a stage being televised by old-style equipment under glaring lights. When some of the lights were switched out, the girls faded off the television screen set up in front of the audience. The old camera could not see them. Then R.C.A.'s new "image orthicon" pickup tube went into action, and the girls reappeared on the screen, brighter than ever...
...White House, the President appeared to be changing pace as his problems grew more pressing. He cut down his usually long list of callers through the front door, but there was a noticeable pickup in traffic through the White House side doors, where his close advisers enter. The President gave over three full afternoons to talks with Cabinet members and other officials...
...Oath of Allegiance, then learned that it had wasted its breath. All over the U.S., War Manpower Commission offices got calls from war workers, asking if they could quit their jobs now. Coming within two hours of each other, the two flashes gave the U.S. its biggest artificial pickup and letdown since the A.P.'s phony D-day flash last June...
Like the short radio waves (about 80 megacycles) now used for television, microwaves (over 300 megacycles) cannot be sent beyond the horizon. But Raytheon's engineers say that microwaves have two advantages for transmitting pictures: 1) they can be relayed more easily, by means of automatic pickup and amplifying stations in towers about 30 miles apart, and 2) they can carry a picture on a narrower band in the spectrum, thus providing a great many more channels for transmission...
...outdone by the aforementioned magazine, the Lucky Bag would add a few western notes to knowledge. A party of prominent Westerners were sea riding the elevators at the Statler Saterdayday night yelling "Geronimo." It seem they have a better pickup than even them at Fargo. At last with a bewildered happy look, Neil Plantefaber, T. S. Smlty John White and Jim Rafferty strode of to meet Dave Schneider and Bob Weeks going up for some of the same. Weekend is the only man in the class beside Mr. Lindsay nursing a ski injury. He get his taking a suicide leap...