Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister King's statement also focused attention on the appalling state of Canadian defense, to say nothing of offense. Canada has always relied on both British and U. S. Navies for help. She has less than 300 military airplanes, scores of which are Royal Air Force discards. Her navy consists of only six destroyers, manned by 137 officers, 1,582 men. Her total active militia is 4,034 men. Her coastal defense guns date from before the War, and are so small that enemy battleships could anchor unharmed 30,000 yards off Halifax or Vancouver and demolish either...
Radio stations have good reason to be skittish about the sort of religious programs they put on the air. Last year, before Easter, a religious drama was submitted to NBC which gave its executives quite a turn. Called The Living God, translated from the French of Cita and Suzanne Mallard, the program attempted to take its hearers back to Jerusalem during the last days of Jesus Christ, whose Passion and Resurrection were supposedly broadcast by an announcer with a portable microphone. Even in a toned-down version this drama scared NBC. But when it was finally broadcast in Holy Week...
...whole body is twisting in a useless effort. His chest tries to expand to inhale some air, and His head has fallen sideways. . . . Convulsions shake His body from head to foot. His heart is beating wildly. Red tears are streaming down His cheeks. Oh! His head has fallen completely backwards, and it looks as if He had fainted...
...sign of nagging. The Major was still there in rare, sonorous voice ("A'spinning goes our weekly wheel of fortune . . . around, around she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows. . . .") and the supply of amateurs showed no sign of diminishing. Still among the top ten programs on the air, it has an unwavering weekly audience...
...taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...