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Aircraft carriers have long arrested the speed of landing planes by means of cables engaging hooks on the underside of the planes' fuselages; and military airfields have used these extensively, as well as cable-and-nylon barriers at the ends of runways. New York's slithering seizure may...
Mother Bell's Designs. Climaxing one of the bitterest business battles in recent history, the Federal Communications Commission turned down A.T. & T.'s request for permission to transmit printed as well as spoken communications through its transatlantic cables, which are capable of carrying both. The combined service would...
The decision came in the complicated case of Transatlantic Telephone Cable No. 4-known as "TAT 4." The first effective Atlantic cable was laid in 1866 by the famed Great Eastern and still carries telegraph messages. Since 1956, A.T. & T. has laid three TATs that accommodate both printed and voice...
40 in a House. The increasing need for power is caused by the world's rapidly expanding population, the steady industrialization of underdeveloped nations and the increasing affluence of the West. Wealthier nations tend to treat electricity as if it were air; merchants often leave lights blazing all night...
Urgent cables from Nicosia warned that even this many troops were having a hard time keeping the peace.