Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead of the House called on the President to discuss legislation, emerged to say that the emphasis will be on national defense, especially in the air. Another report led the New York Times to publish the headline of the week...
Last week the joke turned sour. After her microphone partner and husband, George Burns, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to two Federal indictments for smuggling (TIME, Dec. 19), with the case still pending, he flew to Hollywood to ready their radio program. Last Friday they took to the air. Gracie prattled gaily about her fictional family, but on their criminal careers and residences in jail, as well as on the troubles of her real family, she was mumchance...
...buffet preview last fortnight, the hot dogs are packed in cans invented by a German-Jewish refugee named Leo Katz, whom Mr. Laemmle picked up in Zurich last year. At one end of each can is a compartment containing chemicals. When the compartment is punctured, contact with air makes the chemicals hot enough to warm the hot dogs, which are then plucked from the other...
When Gregg took charge of the Bureau in 1934, it was struggling along on $3,700,000 a year, was generally considered out of date. Today the Bureau is getting ahead. Air-mass analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines...
Huge Radio Corp. of America not only makes music on the air through National Broadcasting Co. but also sells its patrons radio sets, tubes, phonographs, records. NBC's thriving rival, Columbia Broadcasting System, until last week had no such manufacturing interests. Then its debonair young President William S. Paley announced that CBS had purchased American Record Corp., was thus "broadening the base of its service along natural lines...