Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROUMAIN New York City . . . Your sponsoring this program is undoubtedly a public spirited enterprise. I trust it will prove profitable from a business standpoint. Irving M. ENGEL New York City May I join with the thousands of other admirers of "The March of TIME" in congratulating you on your vision and public spirit in agreeing to support this excellent program without censorship? I think that the future of radio in America - from a qualitative point of view - is rather intimately tied up with this very distinctive program. ALDEN B. MILLS Chicago, Ill. I congratulate you and your company on your...
...part of the automatic train control system. To acknowledge that signal and keep his train rolling, Engineer King pulled down a small lever. He knew he was in dangerous territory, that the running rules required him to be able to stop in the length of his own vision. He pulled open the throttle another notch. No. 2 thundered around a curve. Torpedoes began to pop under its wheels. Directly in front of it a red lantern bobbed madly up & down. A few hundred feet farther on the two red tail lamps of motionless No. 8 glared in the darkness. Engineer...
...year he sued all the partners of the sponsoring firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. for a cool $100,000,000. Other stockholders joined him in the suit, and Wall Street japesters used to annoy Goldman, Sachs telephone operators with requests for "the litigation department." To the dignified partners the vision of Funnyman Cantor on the witness stand became a haunting nightmare. Last week the nightmare evaporated. Goldman, Sachs & Co. offered to turn over 100,000 shares of stock and $85,000 cash to the corporation if Eddie Cantor and other stockholders would drop all suits. Goldman, Sachs & Co. was careful...
...kissed her with utter tenderness, as they lay on dry pine needles. Her hair was wet from the rain and she was cold. Suddenly before his closed eyes the vision swept of the peace of perfect sunlight as it plays symphonically among dancing green leaves in a forest at noon, and the sweetest singing of many brooks was in his ears, as he said: "Girl, will you marry...
...nearest-yet imitation of human vision appeared at Chicago last week when Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Victor Co., one of the nation's foremost practical physicists, presented his iconoscope to the Institute of Radio Engineers. The iconoscope or "image observer" is for television use when John Citizen can afford that diversion...