Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diagram above, P.T.M. is sending 24 telephone conversations. The trick is done by allowing each conversation only part-time on the air. A cathode-ray tube acts as a multiple switch. Inside it, a scanning ray revolves like a clock hand, 8,000 times per second. Arranged like the numbers of the clock are 24 contacts, each connected with a different telephone. As the ray sweeps over a contact, it puts on the air a minuscule snatch of the voice passing through the telephone with which the contact is connected. When it moves to the next contact, the next telephone...
...receiving end, the mingled snatches are sorted out by another special cathode-ray tube and distributed to 24 listening telephones. Each set of one-millionth-of-a-second pulses blends into a smooth, clear voice, for the pulses come so close together that the ear cannot note the silences between them...
...Meade L. Bricker, 60, to the all-important job of Ford production boss, to replace Ray Rausch, Bennett protege (Rausch was shunted down the ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...
Theodore L. Rowland '48 was named Popular Music Director, Ray A. Goldberg '48, House Chairman, and Louis Weinman '46, Director of Publicity and Special Events...
...Governor of Rhode Island, now a gentleman farmer after four years in the Navy, and Anne Gordon Colby Vanderbilt, 37: their third (his fourth) child, a son. Name: William Henry Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 2½ oz. When their twin daughters (now 14) were forecast by X ray in 1931, Lloyd's of London promptly upped its rates on insurance against twins...