Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week NBC-RCA television engineers demonstrated that not all of these dreams are pipe dreams. In a United Airliner equipped with a television receiver and two-way radiophone, an invited group flew from Newark Airport to Washington-some 200 miles away from NBC-RCA's Empire State Building transmitter, W2XBS, which has a normal "eyeline" range of 50 miles. Over Washington the ship started to climb. At 21,600 feet, with the passengers sucking oxygen and the windows curtained with frost, it nosed high enough over the earth's curvature so that it was on a theoretical...
...kick for the passengers came on the way home. On the return trip, the television screen showed a movie. As the airliner approached North Beach airport, the movie show was replaced by a ground view of the landing field, with a plane coming down to land. The passengers watched the screen idly, then suddenly came to life. "That's us," someone shouted. It was. Plane and image landed neatly together, taxied toward the apron, where the NBC-RCA mobile unit was parked with its roving eye televising the whole business...
Mused the Baltimore Sun, editorially: "Whether we like it or not, we shall soon have the opportunity, so passionately besought by the late Bobby Burns, of seeing ourselves as others see us, with the additional blessing of seeing ourselves at the same time, and in the same way as others see us. The philosophical connotations are terrific...
...divergence between these two descriptions of business was more than half political. Under Secretary Hanes spoke for the Pollyanna wing of the Administration, which is not at all anxious to throw any stumbling blocks in the way of recovery that the Government does not have to pay for. Secretary Hopkins and ghostwriters spoke for the New Deal wing, which has no real faith that Business ever will produce prosperity and wants to be on record against the day when the boom collapses and more appropriations will be asked from Congress...
Last week the company was working on $20,500,000 of uncompleted contracts (against only $8,500,000 at this time 1938), nearly half of them secured in the three months ended Sept. 15. Two-thirds of this backlog is for corporate accounts-all the way from $20-50,000 plant additions, to a super store for Tiffany & Co. on the elegant corner of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. From the U. S. it has $7,800,000 in orders: for USHA's Tasker Street Housing project in Philadelphia, for U. S. Navy...