Hitting the Books: Smaller cameras and projectors helped the Allies win WWII Engadget 1/16/2021 Andrew Tarantola
Modern cameras exist in high definition ubiquity they’re in our laptops and phones; strapped onto our helmets and dangling from our drones heck, you’d be hard pressed to find someone on the street without a video capture-capable device in their pocket these days. In the early era of cinema, however, cameras and projectors were anything but that. Bulky, temperamental and prone to catching fire, early motion picture technology would require decades of innovation to migrate from their gilded movie palaces to American living rooms and classrooms even the front lines. In
Advantages of Winter Travel
Lewis W. Clemens
Canadians are rapidly awakening to a realization of the advantages of winter travel. They no longer spend all of their year’s vacation in the summer or in Canada; in increasing numbers they are holidaying in winter and abroad. In order to do so many forego a couple of weeks’ holidays one year to get a month or six weeks the next. And it pays in health, pleasure and education, as this article shows.
NOT long ago a big business house in the United States made an interesting proposal. It worked out also to be a novel experiment. The proposition concerned holidays in general and employees in particular. In a word it was “winter vacations.”