Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tucked away in the Great Blue Hill weather bureau's long disused kite-room is the station's 3 kilowatt transmitter, powerful enough to produce 20,000 watts of effective radiated power. This was a gift from Professor E.H. Armstrong of Columbia, inventor of the electronic circuit that made FM a reality. From its 630 foot-high platform, this power plant will make possible strong high-quality signals within a 65 mile radius, an area of some one and one third million families...
Professor E. H. Armstrong of Columbia, the inventor of F.M., gave the Lowell Broadcasting Council its three kilowatt transmitter...
Missouri's O. K. Armstrong put his finger on the big flaw in Truman's case against the press. Said Armstrong: "If we should take the whole amount of the 60% increase on the second-class group, it would only be $24 million. Stack that up against the total deficit of $550 million."* The House ended up with a bill calling for a 30% increase in second-class rates (spread over three years) on both newspapers and magazines, must now confer with the Senate. Most newspapermen and magazine men agreed that this increase was fair enough...
...critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that it was Moonfleet, not munitions, that had won him a place in history...
...part-time pen-in-hand set was busy churning out autobiographies. Sculptor Jo Davidson promised a limited edition of 74 signed copies at $50 each. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 35, decided it was time to tell his life story; so did Louis Armstrong, Ezio Pinza and Jessica Dragonette. Even Bobo Rockefeller was giving the matter serious thought. Among those who have reached the working title stage: Choreographer Agnes de Mille (Dance to the Piper); Princess lleana of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (I Live Again); Society-Columnist Cobina Wright (/ Never Grew Up); and Actress Charlotte Greenwood (Never Too Tall...