Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen and retails for ?55 ($220). For an antenna the set uses the electric wiring system of the house. A cylindrical condenser is attached to the power cord to reduce interference. A booster inside the set steps up the sound and TV signals to the necessary strength. An aerial can be attached in areas of high interference...
During the war, FCC took over a 160-meter amateur band for the use of loran, the aerial navigational device (TIME, March 18, 1946). This week there was good news for some 80,000 U.S. hams (amateur radio operators): FCC was giving part of the band back. Hereafter, U.S. hams,* whose ranks increase by 200 every month, will have a little more elbow room for their incessant chattering with the men & women of every continent...
From his headquarters at Edmonton, the commanding officer of the North West Air Command looks out and up into a vast aerial kingdom. His domain stretches 2,000 miles from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific, and 2,000 miles from the 49th Parallel to the polar seas. Prairie flying schools trained 131,553 flyers for World War II. Through North West's staging fields pass B-29s, shuttling between the U.S. and Alaska (half of the Edmonton field is set aside for Americans...
...beside a string of C-46s. A truck pulled up to his plane to unload the rice; his return load of soldiers was already waiting to board the plane. MacWilliams joined a group of American pilots beside one of the planes. As they talked the thump of artillery and aerial bombs was audible in the distance...
Campaigns for Freshman Smoker positions, already packed with more stunts and gags than any in recent years, yesterday produced a cold-blooded "murder," a baby-kissing spree, a mammoth aerial billboard, and another owl-hunting expedition...