Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast in an unusual manner. The waves do not leave the station via an aerial strung outside the transmitting building, but follow wires strung along the tracks, When they reach a point opposite the speeding train, the waves 'jump' to the aerial of the receiving set on the roof of the train...
From the moving train, travelers can make hotel or other reservations, converse with anyone they wish to reach, play the markets, etc., by merely stepping into the train radiotelephone booth and asking the operator to establish a radio-telephone connection with anyone anywhere in Germany. This train radio-telephone service is widely used and much appreciated by travelers...
Executions- In Svobodny, a small Siberian town near the Manchukuan frontier. 44 Russian men and women were lined up before firing squads, shot dead. Not until after eleven days did news reach Moscow and the world. The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U. S. S. R. had found all guilty of spying, of plotting railway wrecks in Siberian military areas "on orders of the Japanese Secret Service...
...Roman Catholic publications in the U. S. reach 8,990,657 readers, about 40% of the Catholics in the land. Only Hearst has a larger audience. Last week 100 editors of the Catholic press-many of whom are appointed by their bishops or by the superiors of the religious orders they represent and 50% of whom are priests-gathered at Rochester. N. Y. for the 27th annual meeting of the Catholic Press Association. The proceedings were dedicated to the Supreme Pontiff and under his picture blazed the words: YOU ARE MY VOICE...
...drag to about half. To reduce this the NACA experimented with the friction set up by rivets and lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...