Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then the A.A.F. has found the pickup just the ticket for rescuing stranded soldiers from rubber boats, jungles, remote islands. Pickup gear-ropes, poles, harness -is dropped first. The man below then sets up his rig, waits confidently for the plane to come back, hook on and whisk him away. The A.A.F. is already experimenting with fast-flying combat planes to replace the slow-flying put-puts now used...
Typical is the campus of the "University of Adak," in the Aleutians. It is sometimes ankle-deep in mud. Its plant consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
Complex Wave. Craig said he had eliminated the scanning problem by means of a new device which would make it possible to record all 240,000 divisions of an image simultaneously instead of in sequence. His device consists of 240,000 electronic "pickup loops," each designed to record one division of the image. The result, he said, would be a complex wave of 240,000 elements, which could be broadcast with little power on a narrow wave band and would be unscrambled by a scanning device in the receiver. Though none of Craig's audience wholly understood his proposals...
...then amplified to turn a hand on a dial, showing the navigator the plane's direction. Inside this dial are mechanisms that automatically correct errors resulting from magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb load or armor...
...Pickup and delivery service of mail and express by planes that swoop low over rural airports would be extended some 55,000 miles...