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...years: ¶ A device to amplify light the way a loudspeaker amplifies sound, to make television pictures both bigger and brighter without reducing their quality. Suggested name: "Magnalux." ¶ A way to record television programs on inexpensive tape. Suggested name: "Videograph." ¶ An electronic air conditioner with no motor, pump or other moving parts. Specifications: cheap, noiseless, and small enough to be used in any room. Suggested name: "Electronair...
Normally, a new oil well gushes, has to be pumped only after it has been producing for a while. But Harvey had to pump his well to get it started; not till it had been going for a few months did oil gush up. As his output rose from 60 to 125 bbls. a day, the rush began. By last week, the Spraberry trend was the biggest oil "play" in the U.S., with 522 Spraberry wells completed (including 23 owned by Harvey), 200 being drilled, and 3,000,000 bbls. of oil already out of the ground...
...have about 17,000 acres of developed pump irrigation farms around the middle of the project region which, with the U.S.B.R. experimental farms, are proving the versatility, fertility and adaptability of the soil and climate. You have one of the best articles we have seen, but we groan to think of the flood of land inquiries pending...
Family Show. All week the skeet fields (24 in all) were circled by processions of competitors aiming at prizes in 38 major events, popping pump-gun .410s, banging cannonlike 12-gauges. Whole families were part of the show, fathers, mothers, sons & daughters, teaming up or competing against each other...
When an engineer finds something wrong with a pump or a filter, he can order a new one. Doctors dealing with the human blood system cannot. This week researchers at the University of California announced that they have found a new way of getting around the difficulty: they have linked two people together, through their arteries, so that both have a common circulation like Siamese twins...