Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conferring with helicopter people, Raytheon's scientists concluded that a sky station will have to leave the earth under ordinary chemical power and buzz its way up to the spot where the power beams come to a focus. Then its microwave-fueled engine will take over. Test prototypes will carry a human crew, but later models will be automatic. Once they have been maneuvered into the focal spot, they will be kept there by electronic devices which sense when they are beginning to drift out of it. If the supporting beam fails, the station will drift down gently, supported...
Though Raytheon has not put even a model sky station into the air so far, the Air Force is already discussing a preliminary contract. Sky stations could support search radars to watch for aircraft around the curve of the earth. A chain of them acting as microwave repeaters could carry TV programs and telephone conversations across continents and oceans. Fitted with big glass bulbs filled with neon or xenon gas, which glows red or blue when microwaves pass through it, they could serve as stratospheric lighthouses to guide aircraft flying above the clouds...
Young Gavin often peeked around a boxcar for a glimpse of the old man ("nobody dared come into his presence uninvited"), rose through station agent to division superintendent at Spokane in 1916, the year Jim Hill died. Gavin kept on climbing, was made president in 1939, brought the Great Northern successfully through the trying days of World War II, afterwards was one of the first Western railroad men to modernize. In 1951 Gavin stepped out of the presidency and up to chairman of the board, the title previously held only by Hill and his son, Louis Hill. Until he broke...
Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson, 28, landed in Los Angeles in 1918 with $10 and a tambourine. Six years later she had built these assets into the $1,500,000 Angelus Temple and a $25,000 radio station, all paid for by cash donations from the fanatic flock that supported her Foursquare Gospel...
Hanfstaengl's visit to the University at that time was charged with controversy following a CRIMSON editorial entitled "Render Unto Caesar," suggesting that, since "he has risen to distinguished station," it would be appropriate to award him an honorary degree...