Word: preset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Tuning Radio. For listeners who want to fall asleep to soft music on one station and wake up to loud jazz on another, Radio Corp. of America has marketed a new clock radio. Slumber King has a new control device that is preset to shift the dial and change the volume at the desired time. Price...
...infantry captain named John R. Fitzpatrick reluctantly said goodbye to his company and regiment, the astounded clerk who checked him out of the 7th Division's rotation center noted that Fitzpatrick's card listed 99 points. He actually had more points than that: the I.B.M. machine was preset for only two digits. Captain Fitzpatrick, 29, was headed home with the highest total of rotation points-129-ever amassed by any U.S. soldier in Korea...
Then the Wac Corporal, set off by preset instruments or radio control, separated from the V2, adding its speed to that of the larger rocket. How fast and how far it went is still the Air Force's secret, but one spokesman mentioned an intended range greater than 175 miles. According to one informed observer, the Wac Corporal probably jreached a speed of 5,000 m.p.h...