Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Harry Grindell-Matthews, 61, inventor of a highly publicized "death ray," fifth husband of Singer Ganna Walska; in his lonely, electrically guarded bungalow laboratory near Swansea, Wales. An electrical researcher, he developed submarine detectors, "aerial mines," remote-control devices, sound-film synchronization, in 1911 established wireless communication with a plane in flight...
...Mellon waived his automatic release as a married man of 34. // Youngest son John Roosevelt graduated from Harvard's Navy Supply School, was assigned to San Diego's Naval Air Station as assistant supply officer. // Captain Elliott Roosevelt was ordered to Kelly Field for a course in aerial navigation. 11 In a blackout rehearsal at Port Washington, L.I., Bernard M. Baruch and Herbert Bayard Swope directed traffic, Baroness Robert de Rothschild served as a chauffeur. // Betty Grable turned up in Manhattan with a sweater her publicity handlers swore was knitted for her by the R.A.F. // Mme. Chiang...
Unlike its competitors MBS started through necessity. Back in 1934 Gordon Baking Co., which was sponsoring the Lone Ranger out of Detroit, wanted to hit the New York and Chicago markets, with no stops at aerial way stations. Neither NBC nor CBS could render the spot coverage. But WOR, then of Newark, and WGN of Chicago agreed to provide a dual hookup. The Gordon method of radio advertising appealed to many another sponsor...
First time in history such aerial whoop-de-do has been made over a branch of the U.S. Army, the program came into being as a consequence of the activities of ebullient Master Sergeant Clay Doster, editor of the slaphappy Panama Coast Artillery News (TIME, June 9). Few months ago Sergeant Doster was given the tough job of getting some good radio shows for minuscule PCAN and PCAC, which provide four hours of entertainment a day for the 30,000 artillerymen scattered through the lonely Panama jungles...
...voice rose terribly through the three days. After her 16-inchers had been fired singly and by pairs, they were fired in turret salvos. After her 5-in. all-purpose guns (for surface and aerial targets) had been fired singly they were fired by twin mounts, then by ten-gun broadsides...