Word: staticity
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...Snow Static...
Instead the State Department resorted to a mumbo-jumbo of wishful nonsense. Prize specimen: "You cannot say that our policy is ever static. It is developing with new developments. But there has been no change in our policy...
Frequency Modulation (static-less radio) got twice as many commercial lanes as formerly. But it will be moved up into a higher frequency area, so that today's 500,000 FM sets or attachments will have to be converted or junked. FM operators were opposed to moving "upstairs," but FCC said it had inside military information that the present lanes are unsatisfactory...
...snowing-a dry, cold, tiny-flaked snow. In his country house near Greenwich, Conn., which is cluttered with a variety of electronic gadgets, Dr. Orestes H. Caldwell, editor of Electronic Industries, was fiddling with his short-wave radio. It seemed to be afflicted with a peculiar kind of staccato static. He turned on his television set, found it similarly affected, the interference appearing as a series of rapid black & white flashes on the screen...
...thoroughly catalogued, have had little fundamental study; nobody knows, for example, exactly where & how they are formed. Dr. Caldwell's big news was that apparently, under certain conditions, snowflakes carry strong electrical charges. He discovered that the flakes were charged by covering his antenna; when he did, the static promptly stopped...