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...development of the famed M.I.T. Radiation Laboratories. Army & Navy airforces accepted it in 1943.and used it to a limited extent in the last months of the war. G.C.A.'s big advantage over other blind landing systems: all the aircraft needs in the way of equipment is a standard two-way radio. The plane's position is figured out from the ground by radar; the pilot is "talked" down by a ground operator...
...Senate ex-Rhodes Scholar James William Fulbright of Arkansas suggested a two-way traffic in education. Said he last week :"I just started to thinking one day . . . [how] friendship between China and ourselves was greatly influenced by the Boxer Rebellion." The indemnity China paid to the U.S. supported a similar plan, sent many Chinese on scholarships to the U.S. "The result," says Fulbright, ". . . was to make them actually feel that we were civilized . . . and interested in their welfare. That kind of feeling is fundamental to not having war every 20 years...
Radios on Rails. Two-way radio communication between railroad trains was approved by the Federal Communications Commission, may be installed in all U.S. trains by Jan. 1. Thus trains will be in constant touch with dispatchers and with one another, should be able to prevent collisions by prompt reporting of obstructions or accidents...
...result: money in world trade ceased to be a free medium of many-sided exchange. It was becoming a device for recording strictly controlled, two-way barter deals. World War II plunged even the U.S. into almost complete import & export control...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...