Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...
...Ridge, a dome-shaped shell with rotating walls. Electric power, stepped up by generators, operates the instrument and moves the walls along their built in track. Since all the operations can be directed by a set of pushbuttons attached to a lengthy cable, a single person can control all the machinery, including the moving observer scaffold, from anywhere in the room. Two or three times a year, the 1600-pound lens gets a cleaning, and is re-silvered. Because of its size it cannot be aluminum coated--there is no tank in this part of the country big enough...
...program of unrestricted subsidies, with government money pouring into colleges and universities. This money would permit modernization and expansion of college plants, they say, and prevent a cutback in the number of students and size of faculty. Most educators, however, feel that the idea of government endowment without government control is a pipedream...
Colleges fearing Federal control say they would rather increase their efforts to get endowments and money from private sources. Gifts to colleges have dropped considerably in recent years in proportion to tuition and operating costs, but many educators hope that public response to new appeals will make Federal aid unnecessary...
Pike also stated that '40 men will be able to do an adequate inspection job of Russia's atomic installations" if international control is arranged. Atomic installations are large and easily spotted from the air, Pike said...