Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Team Play. Britain's triumph in aircraft design was due to a combination of free-enterprising plane builders, Labor government financing and good planning. It did much to wipe out the government's flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes...
Both the information for carrying out given operations and the numbers with which the operations are performed are represented by small magnetic spots on the surface of the rapidly rotating drums. An elaborate system of recorders and play-backs "circulate" the information between the drums and other parts of the machine...
More than 4000 16-digit numbers, plus 4000 "commands" for carrying out the various operations of the machine, can be put on these nine drums. The drums revolve at speeds up to 120 revolutions per second and the magnetic spots move by the recording and play-back heads at speeds greater than 150 miles par hour...
Mark III, a bakelite and steel instrument, is about 30 feet long and fifteen feet wide and weighs close to ten tons. It contains 100 miles of wire, about 4500 vacuum tubes for the electronic operations, 3000 relays, 2500 magnetic heads and play-backs to carry the information to and from the storage drums, and 400,000 solder connections. A staff of about 40 worked on the development and construction of the machine...
...last month it was announced that Louis Armstrong would play a three-week stand at Bop City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...