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...Albee-Orpheum Corp., F. B. O. (Film Booking Office) Productions, Inc. and a half-dozen other subsidiaries engaged in vaudeville and cinema businesses. RKO then embarked upon an expansion program, acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from its subsidiary, National Broadcasting Co., for RKO time on the air. Radio...
...that he had scored a hit. To the untrained eye there was nothing but a ragged little white line. But to Anderson that line was astounding. It was thin and sketchy like the path of an electron. The particle had obviously traveled upward along the track and not downward, because it was more strongly bent above the lead plate. Also it had curved to the left. In that magnetic field only a positively charged particle could be traveling upward and curving to the left. In all features the particle was the "anti-electron," the mathematical "hole" imagined by Dirac...
When the back is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on to a blanket so that he rests face downward. When the blanket is lifted, the victim's back sags, thus making him sway-back and removing pressure from the spinal cord...
...daily doses, they rarely get a mass impression of the entire crop during one national campaign. If they could view the full output for the 1936 election, many of them would probably be either discouraged at the low estate of politics as material for caricature or depressed at the downward course of the old art of cartooning. Significant was the fact that the Pulitzer Prize committee last May found not a single cartoon worthy of its $500 award...
...teacher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, invented (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et ante). Fast moving paper belts brush against an overhead metallic container which accumulates huge charges of electricity. In the Trump modification this electricity is poured into a tremendous x-ray tube which projects downward through the floor into the room below. At the nether end of the tube is a window of gold from which the 1,000,000-volt rays stream. The patient is simply placed beneath the stream when he requires treatment...