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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring U. S. television out of the laboratory, engineers have several tough nuts to crack. DuMont's head man, Allen B. DuMont, boasts that he holds the broken shells of three of the toughest. Hitherto each television station has been using six megacycles, almost six times the total wavelength space filled by 745 licensed stations in the U. S. broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done...
Finding interviewers more disposed to talk of lifeboats than of books, he spun the yarn behind his whittled model. Invented 20 years ago by his Aunt Maggie's boy, Ivan Fleming, a British naval officer, the Fleming hand-propelled aluminum alloy lifeboat is now in use on 75 merchant ships, including the Nieuw Amsterdam, the Conte di Savoia, the Monarch of Bermuda, Queen of Bermuda, the Stockholm, but not on any U. S. liner...
Attacks on this cost are evident this year in weight-paring and the use of lighter, stronger metals by Cummins, Buda and Hercules (which displayed a Ford V-8 truck replacement unit), and in the entrance into large-scale Diesel production of Mack, Dodge and General Motors...
...frustration" tests used last year involved the use of a savings bank. For three days the trusting subject was given a quarter in payment for drawing a picture, a quarter which was to be deposited in the bank. On the fourth day a key was substituted for the quarter, but when the child opened the bank with it, the other three quarters had gone...
Yale, however, will probably not use many "sleepers," which is fortunate, for after a whole afternoon of "sleeper" practice against Chicago the week before, Harvard was still flatfooted against them yesterday. One Virginia touchdown came on a spectacular 35-yard reverse-field "sleeper" and the second coming after two passes not technically "sleepers" but equally obvious...