Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peel talked the Cinerama people into providing the film, Warner Bros, into lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama...
Today Hoxsey runs a fast-moving medical assembly line. When a new patient applies for treatment, he gets an interview, routine blood and urine tests, X rays, and a fast diagnosis from osteopaths Delmar Randall and Donald Watt. The fee is paid in advance...
...building interior first of all required proper lighting-26.250 watts' worth, twice the amount needed for the torch lights on the Statue of Liberty. Strock's lighting plans called for the erection of two towers, each one studded from top to bottom with sockets ten inches apart to hold the 375-watt bulbs. These towers, mounted on rubber casters, were to be moved slowly around the room to synchronize with the turning of the camera...
...apartment, but she keeps getting in his hair when he wants to practice, and pretty soon he walks out. On the rebound, she marries an American piano student (John Ericson) whose childishness, interpreted by the script as glowing Americanism, illuminates dark old Europe about as effectively as a ten-watt bulb...
When they reached the bottom, the officers looked around with the beams of their 1,000-watt searchlights. "We came down on a bed of slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a loft. sharklike creature. During most of our descent we were surrounded by myriads of luminous points, and we distinguished some weird polyps with translucent tentacles...