Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm-raised in the days when farming was a mode of living, not an industry. He redescribed farming's transformation and its post-War predicament. He repeated his pledges: 1) for a Federal Farm Board; 2) a Farm Loan Fund; 3) a stabilized, autonomous, farm marketing system...
...Eastman system (Kodacolor), exploited a month ago with appropriate ado (TIME, Aug. 6), uses a corrugated film. When projected upon a screen the pictures are excellent. But the screen may not be larger than 16½ by 22 in. If larger, the images show the corrugations of the film. And no copies of the film can be made...
Inventor O'Grady has been working on his system for eight and a half years. Twenty one years ago he worked for the Kinemacolor company. Its pictures showed only two colors. This came from taking two films simultaneously, one through one color screen, the other through another color screen. Then the two films were glued together. Technicolor and Prismacolor pictures shown at present-day theatres come through similar processes...
...present O'Grady system, called Natural Color, uses a revolving shutter attachable to any standard size movie camera. The shutter contains a circle of gelatin sheets tinted to allow the seven primary colors† to pass through. As each section or "frame" of the film pauses its swift fraction of a second behind the camera lens** it receives the impression of a single color. Only those parts of the scene that are blue will be photographed through the blue screen; only the yellow scene parts through the yellow screen; etc. The next frame gets another color impression...
Retired. Harry Bates Thayer, chairman of the board of A. T. & T., after 47 years in the service of the Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board...