Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright promise of solving the distance problem, however, appeared when American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s experimental laboratories produced the coaxial cable. This consists essentially of two hollow copper tubes with a slender copper wire running through the centre of each, the whole insulated and sheathed in a lead case. Developed primarily as a telephone improvement (it transmits 240 messages simultaneously), it can also handle a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide, is able thus to transmit the fluctuating lights & shadows of television. With this cable it would be possible to "pipe" a televised program all over...
...American Museum of Natural History financed the planetarium building by persuading RFC to take $650,000 in Planetarium Authority bonds in return for a loan, to be paid off by millions of 25? admissions. But the RFC would not advance funds for a foreign-bought instrument. That problem was solved, to Mr. Davison's surprise and delight, when he was handed a check for $150,000 by Bachelor-Banker Hayden, who had been religiously stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago (TIME...
...American Houses, Inc. (TIME, April 1). They were well planned, built of asbestos and cement panels, were portable and equipped with every modern gadget, including airconditioning. And they have sold well. But the trouble was that after nearly a year General Electric discovered that Motohomes did not solve the problem they were after. Designed for mass production, they are not being mass produced, are too expensive for the man earning between $2,000 and $3,000 a year...
...without spectators, by lawyers of whom the defendants had 20 present, headed by onetime Senator James A. Reed, the trial, delayed all summer by the defense because one of the defendants, Warner Executive Abel Gary Thomas, was ill, finally began with the selection of a jury. To decide a problem whose ramifications have taxed the best brains of the cinema industry and the U. S. Government for the last 15 years, prosecution and defense agreed upon a dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage proprietor, a retired traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George...
...York Central R. R. has a problem. It owes $63,000.000 to a group of ten big banks headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. and George Fisher Baker's First National. It owes another $27.000.000 to RFC. Even on Central's billion-dollar balance sheet $90,000,000 of bank and RFC loans is an ominous item. The money was borrowed in the depths of Depression when Central was draining its cash into its huge development program on Manhattan's West Side...