Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to proposed advertising and circularizing, six field workers will work from the office, locating and inspecting premises suitable for student occupation within a 10-mile radius of Harvard Square...
This site, the Hyde Park home of the man who had done much to make UNO possible, seamed the probable first choice. In London last week the UNO Interim Committee had narrowed down the possible sites to about 15, all within a radius of 85 miles of New York City or within 60 miles of Boston. Among them were Princeton, N.J., and such historic Massachusetts towns as Concord, Marblehead, Quincy, Dedham. Whatever the site, Congress will have to agree to surrender sovereignty over...
...line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
Roll Out the Bank. The Schult Corp. delivered to Paul C. Thurston, president of Maine's Rumford Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
...high in the sky? Westinghouse engineers talked it over with Glenn L. Martin Co., which proposed to build B-29-sized planes for the job. Ground studios would beam programs to the planes, which, at 30,000 feet, could then transmit the programs to receivers within a 211-mile radius. Only 14 planes would have to be in the air to service...