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...bike-race telecast was transmitted via a telephone exchange near the Garden, over a regular telephone connection to the studios in Radio City. Not quite as simple as telephoning the grocer, telephoning television requires an amplifier to boost the signal along, and a device called an equalizer to keep the multiple frequencies in step at the receiving point in the studio. Already being experimented with in England, telephone wire's aptitude for television led some optimistic engineers last week to envision the possibility for a U. S. television network within a year...
...decision to prime the pump once again by putting $4,000,000,000 of emergency money into circulation. Last week the President had made no such decision but speculators hoped for other forms of Government magic. They had reason to expect that business would get a modest boost from repeal of some of the more painful provisions...
...fact that Japan has restricted cotton (and partially restricted wool and rayon) to army use only. But Japanese production of finished silk goods has declined, suggesting that Japanese: 1) may be hoarding silk as a hedge against inflation, or 2) deliberately creating a shortage in order to boost prices and make a killing before new synthetic silks start to compete in the U. S. market...
...first time every major-league team will have at least one sponsor. Procter & Gamble Co., for example, will broadcast some of the New York Yankees, Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers games to boost Ivory Soap. Atlantic Refining Co.-sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with...
Clad in a Crimson sweater for Harvard and also competing to give his beloved Lowell House an unofficial boost in the Straus trophy race, Irving M. Clark '41 literally shoveled 23 live goldfish down his threat before amazed onlookers in the Union last night as he hung up a new Harvard and Intercollegiate mark in his specialty event...