Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TEST will be ordered by FCC to see if U.S. public will buy it. For limited period non-network stations in some big cities will transmit "scrambled" TV images of music, sports and theater events on special channels that can be picked up by dropping 25? to $2 per program into decoder attached to home TV set, or by paying monthly fee to stations. Several systems seek testing...
...incident. Dr. Oppenheimer was approached by a friend, Prof. Haakon Chevalier, while he was director of the atomic research program at Los Alamos, who suggested that it might be a good idea to keep our Russian allies abreast of the progress of the research. He volunteered to help transmit such information "informally." This proposal was summarily rejected by Dr. Oppenheimer on the ground that any such suggestion would have to be implemented through appropriate governmental channels...
...difficult to grasp in written form. And, perhaps most important, the lecture allows the great teacher, the seminal mind, to communicate with more people than he could meet individually or in small groups. The success of this theory, however, depends almost entirely on the lecturer's ability to transmit his enthusiasm for the subject--in other words, on his personality. And it is apparent that the number of teachers with these qualifications is small indeed compared to the total number of lecturers...
...leader of the G.O.P. Senate forces, Bill Knowland's job is to transmit the plans and attitudes of a majority President to the minority party in the Senate, to seize the initiative, where possible, in a chamber balanced at 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. As the most spotlighted Republican on Capitol Hill, Knowland's responsibility (which he shares with House Minority Leader Joe Martin) is to see to it that the Republican congressional record will contribute to Republican congressional victory in a 1958 that looks all too shaky. Moreover, if the U.S. is to get value received...
What Ratings Can't Do. The ideal system, according to CBS President Frank Stanton, would be "to get a Nielsen rating the morning after." The industry now waits almost a month for the reports. Nielsen has devised an Audimeter that can transmit readings instantly to Nielsen offices by leased lines and, at the request of TV brass, is preparing an estimate of what his service would cost on an instantaneous or overnight basis. He holds hope that it may be economically feasible...