Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Project. Thaler, then 31, did not wait for official encouragement, or even ask for it. Instead, he went ahead on his own. He borrowed radio equipment from a colleague, set it up and trained it in the direction of Nevada, where the AEC was about to fire a series of atom bombs. To his delight, the oscilloscope showed telltale wiggles. Two months later, he picked up the trail of the Russian rocket that launched Sputnik I. Enlisting the aid of other colleagues, he turned his attention to missile launchings at Cape Canaveral. There he ran into bureaucracy. None...
...mouse, in this case, is the ionosphere. Says Thaler: "We just don't know enough about the propagation of radio waves through the ionosphere. It is not well understood.'' Other scientists chipped in with equally cautious remarks. "It is not the greatest thing since beer," said one; and an M.I.T. researcher pointed out that "obvious countermeasures [radio jamming] could be used against it." But the Defense Department's careful-going Research Director Herbert York concedes that "the ionospheric backscatter principle is a sound one." Give him a year. Thaler predicted, and he hoped he could...
...attack aimed at smashing the language barrier forever. Already Latin Americans are trying to launch similar schools in New York City, Buffalo, and Elizabeth, NJ. Last week Tijerina himself was hard at work stumping Texas to sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have done...
...married a girl from Mankato, Minn., he tried the dry-cleaning business and went broke again. Back in Los Angeles, he opened a small tailor shop and was almost starving when he offered to make some uniforms for Tex Williams' cowboy band. Then Tex went on the radio coast to coast and gave Nudie a plug, and the little tailor was on his way to his first ulcer and his first...
Even stocks of electronics makers who sell chiefly to consumers sold off easily. Zenith Radio Corp. established a first-half record with earnings of $1.66 per share v. $1.01 last year, but lost 14⅛ points during the week. Philco Corp. came back from a $1,400,000 loss in the first half last year to earn 54? per share for the first six months of 1959, was off 2⅞ for the week. Motorola, which set a second-half record with $3.04 per share v. 76? last year, dipped seven points...