Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here is something startling. I am going to knock on wood . . . because it is still in the experimental stage." New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, on his weekly broadcast, then announced that the city's Public Health Research Institute had succeeded in immunizing laboratory animals against certain kinds of malaria parasites, a feat many experts believed impossible...
...Prime Minister spoke his mind first, in a Dominion-wide broadcast. He told Canadians that there was no overall shortage of army reinforcements. The only shortage, he said, was in the infantry, which suffered unexpectedly high casualties in Europe (see below). This shortage will be repaired, he said: 1) by more recruiting; 2) by trying to persuade home-defense draftees ("zombies") to volunteer for overseas service...
Then it was announced that four days after the beer-hall anniversary Hitler would speak. Everybody waited. The German radio broadcast a proclamation purporting to have been written by Hitler: "Requirements of total war have caused me to postpone celebrations. . . . Work at my headquarters does not permit me to leave it, not even for a few days. ... I consider my task today to consist not ... in delivering speeches. . . ." But Hitler's proclamation was read by Himmler...
Last week, Colonel General Janos Vörös, chief of the Hungarian Army general staff, who had gone over to the Red Army, broadcast an appeal to his troops from Moscow, ordered them to desert with their weapons and equipment to the Russian side. General Vörös said that he spoke in the name of Horthy's regency. Though the Russians for more than two decades had denounced the testy old Admiral as a fascist, General Vörös ended his broadcast to Hungarians with the words: "Long live free, democratic Hungary...
...asks the FCC to assign it three channels for frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting. On these, three types of programs would be broadcast: 1) uninterrupted classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) shopping news and educational programs. Subscribers would pay 5? a day ($18.25 per year) to listen. Nonsubscribers would be kept from listening by a "pig squeal" which would be broadcast along with the programs, "jamming" all sets but those of the Benton subscribers, whose radios would tune out this squeal by a special apparatus. Benton proposes to let other broadcasters use the attachment for a small royalty...