Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Broadcasting Co. last week exhibited a three-inch cubical box with slender, demountable, 10-in. antennae projecting on each side. Like the heavier portable sets which it is intended to replace, this pocket transmitter enables an announcer to roam freely at State fairs, golf tournaments, Roller Derbies and train wrecks, ready to broadcast at any instant. Weighing less than a pound, powered by a 90-volt battery which weighs some 3 lb., the set operates on a microwave (about one metre) at 300,000 kilocycles. The signals, which have a range of about four miles, are relayed on ordinary...
...last week American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. advertised the fact of which U. S. railroads have lately been most proud: Not one passenger lost his life as the result of a train accident...
Rounding a curve just before taking a bridge across the Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...
...legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale drygoods trade. The two members who have sat on the Board since its first meeting in 1914 will stay on in Washington: Charles Summer Hamlin, 74, as a technical adviser to the new Board; Adolph Caspar Miller, 70, as an adviser...
...bankers, led by Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank, think that excess reserves should be reduced before inflation gets going. This No. 1 U. S. banker declared last December that the U. S. was "running with the throttle chained wide open and the airbrake system removed from the train." On the other hand, the House of Morgan believes that excess reserves are by no means excessive, since a heavy outflow of gold would quickly pare them to more normal proportions. To Chairman Eccles the track looks clear as far as he can see. Moreover, he disagrees with Banker Aldrich...