Color TV in a Decade Says DuMont Pioneering Inventor
Pauses on a full color system as FCC hearings loom. Dr. Allen B. DuMont argues no commercially feasible color standard exists yet and predicts color TV will take 10 to 20 years, with many video boxes and stations by 1953. He recalls starting in a garage and growing to a $50 million business and a $2 million Paterson plant.
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Passiac
N. J
Allen B. du Mont
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
DuMont
CBS
RCA
East Paterson
Road Hogs Derby Driver Gives Up Cars After 40 Years
George Wood, 90, announces retirement from driving after four decades due to dangerous road hogs. Meanwhile, the District of Columbia reports 34 miles of railway.
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Derby
Eng
George Wood
District of Columbia
Paraplane and GE cloud analyzer mark aviation advances
Senior Aircraft Corporation reports the Paraplane an automatic parachute plane built in three years in Bristol Pennsylvania that lands and takes off under 200 feet. General Electric unveils a Cloud Analyzer carried by weather balloon to measure cloud properties and transmit data at 120 readings per minute.
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Washington
Aviation
Aircraft Corporation of
New Jersey
Bristol
General Electric
Navy
New Invisible Hearing Device Debuts Without Ear Receiver
Deafened people hail a new Beltone device that improves hearing without any receiver button in the ear. It promises clearer listening to songs sermons and conversations and lets users avoid visible signs of deafness. Beltone offers a free brochure and home testing with no risk.
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Chicago
Beltone
Dept
19Th St
Ill
Five Cartons Cigarettes Buy German Cuckoo Clock
THOMASVILLE Oct 1 The George Hills on Julian avenue own a handcrafted German cuckoo clock given by their soldier son while he served in Germany The clock features carved wildlife and a deer head with weights driving the works It was bought in Augsburg by S/Sgt James Hill from a German dealer for five cartons of cigarettes and shipped home for Christmas He leaves for a new assignment tomorrow and may have bought it during a 30 day leave.
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George Hill
Thomasville
Germany
U. S. Air Force
Gilbert File
George Hills
Julian Avenue
Hill
General Yard
Myrtle Desk Company
High Point
Hills
James Hill
Augsburg
Air Force
36Th
Sgt. Hill
Skeleton found beside railroad trestle in Columbia
An unidentified man was found skeletonized beside a railroad trestle near Columbia, sheriff and acting coroner said. Deterioration by vultures left no clue to race or cause of death. The note mentions a long term decline in continental U.S. railway miles since 1916.
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Albert W. Hull
Hull
Columbia
S. C
Uup
T Alex Heise
Cal M. Lawson
Continental
United States
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Hal Boyle
Leon Shloss
International News Service
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Atlantic
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Mattison
Baxter Whitney
American
Hermance
Sanders
Yates American
Nash
Onsrud
Bradford
LeBlond
South Bend
Milwaukee
van Norman
Brown & Sharpe
Jackson Plain & Vertical Millers
USS
Kck
ICE Delivery Company
Slg West Broad
Terminix
Terminix CO
N.C
South Main
P. O. Bux
Hartsolve
MERIC
Setter Atu
Re * al
F.H. A
Youngstown
Dane
Bev
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Rockies
Youngstown Kittchens
Mullins
Mullins Manufacturing Corporation
Erid
Warren, Ohio
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