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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made her way to the surface ("it was swell, that air"), grabbed a floating barrel, helped some men gather planks for a raft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...went," she told reporters, "with Mr. Miller eyeing his watch. . . . I was in the suction. ... I kept going down, and it kept twisting me around and carrying me down. I fought hard. I am a good swimmer and I finally washed out of the suction. ... I had to have air, I just had to get air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Peace is mainly something to argue about at America's Town Meeting of the Air. For the last four years this program, Radio's No. 1 public forum, has provided weekly October-to-May battles on all manner of current topics, with headliners (Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Earl Browder, Wendell Willkie, etc.) in the main bouts, and audiences winding up each week's card with a free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...weekly by mail for the 1,600 seats in Manhattan's Town Hall and a chance to heckle the speakers in person. Anxious, too, for a chance at the program are at least two hefty radio sponsors (Chrysler, Metropolitan Life), but NBC's Town Meeting of the Air is not for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...agreed finally that they would go this week. To each U. S. correspondent Hore-Belisha was introduced separately by amiable Novelist Ian Hay, public relations counsel for the War Office, to each he said a few pleasant words. Then on to the Air Ministry the newsmen trooped, took tea and whiskey with Sir Kingsley Wood while pretty girl-members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force offered cakes and sherry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Green Felt and Gold C | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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