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Most of this was on small stations, the kind you can hear only if your radio is placed at the right angle and with the antenna just so. There are also four programs of records on local stations, of which none is the 920 Club and one is the Crimson Network's Nine O'Clock Jump. Then there is WEEI's all-night session after one o'clock, guided by an amusing night owl named Sherman Feller. More on the order of the Crimson Network's program is the Swing Nocturne on WCOP at ten-thirty...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia laid up one of his two limousines, moved his fire-chasing gadgets (red spotlights, two-way radio with antenna) to a two-seated coup...
...waves can be used to dry artificial silk as it is spun out of cellulose and reeled into hollow spools. Dried formerly with heat, the outer fibers would dry first and contract upon the inner ones, causing nonuniform drying and shrinkage. But high-frequency radio waves emanating from an antenna in the center of the reel dry the fibers uniformly, avoid shrinkage...
...torpedo had struck fair on the starboard side. No. 5 Hold filled at once. The Lehigh began to settle fast. The main topmast came down, carrying away the main radio antenna, so that Sparks thought his SOS was not transmitted. All hands manned the boats and pulled away while she sank. All four of the lifeboats were picked up by British vessels within 50 hours...
...building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time at all (for their speed is that of light], they reach a point in the darkness 3,000 miles away. A man there has a receiving set in his cellar tuned to the right wave length. He is risking prison or maybe death...