Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces have developed and already put into use a hand-powered radio transmitter by which flyers forced down at sea can call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...
...radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with flowers. You see her now; you look interested. You examine her antenna out of the corner of your eye and try to estimate her wave length. You try to contact her but with no success. At last she hears...
...click that nearly breaks your eardrums. You radio-for another drink to restore your nerve and try again. This time she is more responsive. She looks your way and turns on her transmitter. She has lovely eyes. By this time she is putting out so many watts that your antenna is getting a sun tan. She wants you to come over and sit with her. You get up and come in on the beam...
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...