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Owners of fine radio receivers understand the clangor of nearby thunderstorms and the clatter of distant ones. But a third kind of static, a soft hissing, las been unexplained until last week. Karl Guthe Jansky of Bell Telephone Laboratories announced that hissing static comes from the Milky...
...creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production of humorous human-interest stories for every front page; there is an influence extending even from Washington Street to Cambridge which makes the headline "Many Years a Baker in West Roxbury" read like the proper introduction to an obituary; the dry, static condition of their surroundings compels the journalists to write a few inches of padding concerning the weather so that people actually read it. And then, there...
...little about them because all domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...
...dynamic system compared with the static system of history. The controls of the static age, namely the price system of production, are opposed to the controls which must govern the dynamic age of Technology. Under the price system the accumulation of wealth means the accumulation of debt certificates?wealth proceeds by the creation of debt. The present total accumulation of public, private and corporate debt in the U. S. amounts to $200,000,000,000, or expressed in another way, claims against the producing machinery of the U. S. have doubled since...
...Vagaries of the British mental process cannot make the cynical tone which implies that these things are true, and pass for normal on the opposite shore of the Atlantic. The writer concentrates on the vast changes in the social life of present day England, as contrasted with the static, almost unwordly condition of public life and commerce, and does not go nearly so intensely into the desperate economic situation of the country as Mr. Andre Siegfried did in "England's Crisis." Mr. Scarborough's examples of England mudding through' are very true, and he is struck by the same underlying...