Word: outlets
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...contains a four-poster bed, set in the midst of microphones, a recording machine, filing cabinets, a typewriter and a desk. Scattered about are innumerable pads and pencils. Like all the rooms in Benny's house, his bedroom is equipped with a radio and a public-address-system outlet...
...tons more on order when Hitler put her out of business. Chile's annual capacity is nearly 500,000 tons, almost entirely for export. Recently she has been selling to Japan. But Chile wants to create a steel industry (providing a domestic copper outlet); for this and less ambitious purposes she badly needs U. S. manufacturers. She would gladly trade 100,000 tons of copper for them. Her mines-which can produce for 4? to 6? a pound-can make a profit (accruing mainly to Anaconda and Kennecott) at the present 10? delivered price. The deal would involve some...
...biggest hope for the playwright is Harvard's new zest for radio. The Workshop expects to produce a few plays a month. And they will have a guaranteed outlet to the college via the Crimson Network. No author will have a better chance to have his opus praised or picked to bits than at the next morning's breakfast table. With plenty of "free air" available, Harvard should be swarming with Maxwell Andersons if the law of supply and demand holds good...
...signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
...neutral but palpitant Sweden, engineers of Ericsson Telephone Co. devised an air-raid alarm which works like a doorbell. The bell can be plugged into an ordinary current outlet in the house. If raiders come, the power plant slightly steps up the voltage in the line, rings the alarm bell in all houses which have...