Television First Industry After War Promises Postwar Boom
The postwar path for television aims at becoming a billion dollar industry as nine prewar stations continue and 17 new FCC applications appear. War spurred tubes drop costs, training expands, and engineers shift to TV production, with networks needed to overcome 45 mile reception limits and new forms of advertising and acting emerging.
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Howard W. Blakesler Aly
New York
Telene i
Federal Communications Commission
Radio
Television miracles spark scientific wonder in 1940s loom
The article explains how the orthicon and iconoscope evolved into a powerful television system. It describes the mechanical retina and fluorescent screen, detailing how voltages and electron beams reproduce images. It highlights Palomar optics and R C A efforts led by D O Landis in pushing postwar television.
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Grandstand
A. A. Campnell- Swinton
Bords Rosing
St. Petersburg
Vladimir K. Zworykin
R. CO. A
America
Zworykin
War Chest Drive Under Way For 1943 Efforts
Machinery of the 1943 War Chest drive began as the 60 person special gifts division met to plan the divisional quota and receive solicitation kits. Ensign Annabel Murray praised USO and volunteer workers while Alex R. Thomas announced a $57 000 advance from eight donors. A Pacific soldier sent an anonymous gift through a local friend to United China Relief. Albert Steves Jr urged the campaign pace rise to surpass 1942 levels.
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Annabel Murray
U. S. Coast, Guard, Women's Reserve
USO
War Chest
War Chest Fund
T Hey
Alex R. Thomas
Thomas
Pacific
United China Relief
Albert Steves Jr
Bexar County
British Envoy Advocates Collaboration With Russia
London reports Sir Samuel Hoare the British ambassador to Spain urged British war workers that isolating the Soviet Union after the war would be a grave mistake. He said the Soviet Union must take its rightful place in the postwar world.
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London
Samuel Hoare
Spain
Russia
Soviet Union
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