Word: networker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Dowding last week kept tabs on these three aerial barriers. Below on the action grid, intelligence officers in earphones sat like croupiers raking little planes back & forth across squares ruled on the map, following the progress of air battles. This efficient control system was the centre of a complicated network of telephones, teletypewriters and visual signals which with extraordinary speed coordinated airfields all over Britain. In from observer posts on the coasts to various control centres, then to this GHQ grid, from there to fighter stations' operating rooms, and finally to planes in the air flowed a steady stream...
From the results of the present experimenting in Gore Hall of Winthrop House, the Crimson network will make its final plans for the new wired system of wireless that it will install throughout the college...
There would of course be one exception to this plan in that some buildings were built before the time of steel construction. In these, situated mainly in the Yard, the programs of the network will be released over water pipes or some other metal framework within the structures...
...technical work are Charles W. Oliphant, '41, Technical Director; Gordon McCouch, '41, Technical Engineer; and Charles W. Davis, '41, Production Engineer. During September they will supervise the installation of the new direct wire system. Freshman are welcomed to watch the technicians at work in order to understand the Network before the competition for positions opens later in the Fall...
...purpose of the Network is to supply programs that major networks, for one reason or another, cannot give. College news and feature interviews, like those with the Wellesley hoop-roll queen or Col. Stoopnagle, fill an important spot at 10.45. Primarily, the Network wants to be a test tube where new ideas in music drama or talks can be tested and tried...