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...Tentative results of this survey show the most common occupations to be: factory work (assembling, packing, inspection, glass-cutting, working punch and drill presses); piano tuning; store & stand keeping; salesmanship (especially insurance); teaching; music (organ, radio concert work, vaudeville, orchestra). Less fre- quent occupations: osteopathy, journalism, poultry raising, stenography, law, operating dictaphones...
Experiments with radio communication between moving trains and railroad signal towers had previously been made, but never before so successfully as last week on a mile-long New York Central freight train. In a tower at South Schenectady. N. Y., were Edward W. Rice Jr. and other General Electric officials; on the train were New York Central officials. They talked together, and clearly, as the train moved...
...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
...London papers penetrated Wales and threatened its native tongue, so must the efficiency of mass production inevitably break down the barriers of custom and nationality. Protective tariffs imposed merely to support an interior industry are economically unsound; a confusion of dialects clogs the channels of trade and diplomacy. The radio, moving pictures, artistic advertising, all the weapons of modernity, are weapons as well of internationalism. Whether they compensate for the colorfulness of unhygienic custom and inefficient quaintness must remain an academic question for the antiquarian and tourist...
...addition to recording the variations effected in radio reception during a sun-spot cycle, the new apparatus will assist the Laboratory in keeping a record of the sun-spot observations. And in connection with both studies, a specially designed photographic apparatus constructed at the Laboratory will be used to locate the position and size of the spots...