Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both relatively small (second ten) producers and both losing money on set business. CBS is considering dropping set business altogether, while Raytheon, with radio and TV losses of $1,000,000 in current fiscal year, is dickering with Admiral to sell a warehouse and an assembly plant, keep tube-making facilities for other electronics production...
...asked to pose for a reporter-at-work shot, then scrawls large obscenities into his notebook under the camera. In Los Angeles, ingenious still photographers-who are on the reporters' side-have found that a stroboscopic light flashed directly into a live camera will usually blind the TV tube momentarily and then throw a ten-minute glaze over the evil...
...this temperature, deuterium nuclei can react with one another at a rather slow rate. So when the Soviet scientists detected both free neutrons and high-energy X rays coming from the tube, they thought at first that they had started a true thermonuclear reaction. More careful investigation proved that this could not be the case, but free neutrons are the "fire" that cause most nuclear transformations, and any new process that frees them is apt to prove important...
...Other Possibilities." Kurchatov did not claim that the Russians have accomplished much with their pinch-effect experiments. He pointed out that it had not yet proved possible to keep the hot gas out of contact with the walls of the tube for more than a fraction of a second. "The success of further work in this direction," he said, "will greatly depend on the possibility of creating conditions under which the plasma [ionized gas] column will experience multiple oscillations during the buildup of the current without coming in contact with the walls. However, there are serious reasons to believe that...
...wind box" (iron lung) took care of Charlie's breathing and shook his faith in the infallibility of tribal magic. To clinch it, the doctors gave him his tucker (food) intravenously and by stomach tube. Charlie, half-starved, had wandered six days in the bush without food. As he regained some strength, Charlie seemed to regain some will to live...