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...statements pithily reflect television's current state. The U. S. has about 20,000 sets. Scanning devices to translate, scenes into electromagnetic waves are satisfactory for experimental purposes. But transmission fails...
...encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard's Bombay-born Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly and England's late (1850-1925) Oliver Heaviside, bookstore keeper who for amusement invented mathematical forms to describe the behavior of alternating currents. Radio waves are presumed to reflect from the Layer much as light beams reflect from a mirror. Estimates place the Layer at 50 to 250 mi. from Earth's surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks comparatively close to Earth; by day, as the Sun puts in its effect...
...reflect too long. Chéron," chaffed a Cabinet colleague. "In the end you will accept!" Deliberately, ten minutes later, Papa Chéron accepted. French cartoonists rejoiced. Within a week M. Chéron was a national figure, a sort of Norman Coolidge, invincibly bourgeois. As Finance Minister he outlasted Premier Poincaré, carried on under Premier Briand, then under Premier Tardieu. When the latter fell (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930) Papa Chéron was found to have left in Jean Frenchman's long, woolen sock a treasury surplus of 19 billion francs...
...Plan called for turning 17% of the nation's sown area into "collective farms." These were to be mechanized with tractors and other farm machinery. Soon the State found it possible to drive peasants into collectives much faster than had been planned. This was done. Never stopping to reflect that true collectivization demands simultaneous mechanization, the State has turned not 17% but 80% of Russia's sown area into so-called collectives. For the past two years these would-be "grain factories" have been clamoring in vain for tractors and other equipment which the State could not supply...
...diplomatic manouevres since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory in favor of the second and sounder...