Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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December. In Springfield, Mass., a woman complained that she could get nothing at all on her hearing aid but radio station WSFL next door...
...week's end Chambers had his own personal troubles. His wife, driving through Baltimore at dusk to meet him at the railroad station, struck Mrs. Maggie Thomas, 70, who died in a hospital. Esther Chambers was charged with "assaulting, knocking down and causing the death" of Mrs. Thomas, released in $1,000 bail...
...course signal in the pilot's ears only when the plane is in one of four narrow beams. Planes outside the beams get little help from the radio. Even when they stay on the beam, they have no way of telling how far they are from the station...
Another bad feature of the old-style ranges is that airliners have to fly directly from station to station. This causes traffic congestion. In bad weather a long-distance plane cannot strike off cross-country to avoid the neighborhood of a busy airport. If it does, it gets off the beam and may have to go through time-wasting maneuvers to get back on again...
...omniranges are changing all that. Operating at very high frequency, they are entirely free from static. They do not send out restricted beams but can tell any plane within their range (50 miles or more, depending on altitude) in what direction it is heading in relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed...