Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line snapped. Nothing more could be done. Somebody mentioned the 26 men trapped behind the bulkhead door. The commander shut him up. The sea, icy cold at 240 feet, sucked all the heat out of the ship; the sweating hull gave off moisture that intensified the cold. The air in the ship would last for perhaps 48 hours...
...Hitler held a showy conference of generals in Berlin, and Italian Chief of Staff Alberto Pariani and German Commander-in-Chief of the Army General Walther von Brauchitsch set to work forming an Italian-German supreme military council. Later, Colonel General Erhard Milch, Chief of Staff of the German Air Force, flew to Rome to unify the two countries' air forces...
Despite these journalistic fidgets, broadcasters understood that radio, by its very nature, must exist under a tacit censorship, for so long as air-waves are limited, some agency must allocate them, and the power to allocate is the power to censor...
...spring, radio's small fry get their big chance to try out new program ideas. Reason: most of the big-name, expensive radio shows leave the air during the spring and summer, when listeners presumably spend less time at home. At summer's end, when the regulars return, small-fry survivors are few. Of last year's dozens of new shows, the standout success is Information Please...
...Foster tunes, Susanna Don't You Cry, which, for all its musical charm and its flashy mounting by Robert Edmond Jones, had a plot which died of Southern molassitude. The Lyric Theatre next put on an evening of dancing by Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan-an uninspired Air and Variations to music by Bach; an arty cigar-store Indian Pocahontas (Elliott Carter Jr.); a rich, loamy piece of Americana, Billy the Kid (Aaron Copland...