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Army engineer detachments, 65% of them Negro troops, could stand by the Ledo-Burma Road and proudly watch the supply trucks roll up to China. Through two rain-lashed monsoon seasons they had labored, helped string an all-weather pavement over 1,044 miles of mountain jungle, helped build some 600 bridges. Now they could add up the cost: for every mile, an estimated $1,000,000 and a U.S. soldier's life...
...engineer Joseph Pierson as he applied for three microwave bands, at 1,900 megacycles and above. Said Pierson: if it gets these allocations, Raytheon will start work at once on the eastern (Boston, New York, Washington) and West Coast terminals of the microwave system. Raytheon plans to build a string of stations on western mountain tops, from Mt. Adams, Washington, to Mt. Whitney, California. Eventually the east and west terminals will be connected by chains of relay transmitters at about 30-mile intervals across the country...
Pops Foster pounded the bass drum with numerous New Orleans marching bands, but later shifted to his present instrument, string bass, when he joined Kid Ory's Band in 1910. Since then Pops has appeared with Louie Armstrong, Luis Russell, and nearly every other outstanding colored orchestra. Fred Moore on drums and Hank Duncan at the Piano add a touch of youth to the Bechet group. Both grew up in the '20's-those glorious days of prohibition--and have gained fame only recently after leaving the Crescent City to appear at various New York bistros...
Tallyho. He took over a string of movie magazines which had run up big printing bills (Screenland, Silver Screen), watched them move into the black; he set up Consolidated Book Publishers to print cheap Bibles and encyclopedias, branched out into country banking, bought up Chicago real estate. When Liberty magazine was floundering, he took it over from Macfadden, added it to his string...
...test a domestic phone service without cables or wires, a string of radio relay stations between New York City and Boston will be set up as soon as "war conditions" permit. A.T.&T. President Walter S. Gifford thus reported to stockholders last week. The "vehicle" visualized: ultrashort waves, known as microwaves. Probable early use: phone service to isolated communities. Ultimate possibility: no more telephone wires and cables...