Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese think differently. Their troops were last week on the offensive in southeast Hupeh, almost captured Nanchang in Kiangsi Province. China's reborn air force last week raided Japanese bases in Shansi, downed four enemy planes...
From Dayton to Buffalo to Indianapolis an Army pursuit plane streaked last week, bearing the most precious bit of freight now in custody of the U. S. Army Air Corps. Plucked from the Reserve for active duty, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh dutifully inspected the Air Corps experimental centre at Wright Field, and two fighting-plane factories at Buffalo.* He flew on to analyze the Indianapolis plant of Allison Engineering Co., which thereupon announced that it was tripling its capacity and planning to produce a revolutionary, 2,400-h.p. in-line engine for the Army...
From the early days of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin...
...draft of cold air, a warm drink, or even gentle stroking of a finger on a "trigger" spot may bring on an attack...
...work of the staff is two-fold, first to learn the use of instruments, and, second, to master the technique of putting a show on the air. Problems in connection with this phase of the work include: the acoustics of the broadcasting room; the placement of performers in order to avoid rebound and overemphasis; the accurate reproduction of sound effects so that "hoof beats in the distance" don't drown out the heroics of the act; and the blending of all parts of the program in the right proportions...