Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have wondered if the lights of his destiny were also burning late. It was going on midnight when a motorcycle courier raced into the high-walled palace grounds, roared past the Moorish sentinels, and delivered the text of the Tripartite declaration. "It is hoped," London, Washington and Paris had broadcast, "that leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards may soon find means to bring about a peaceful withdrawal of Franco...
Within 15 minutes he had written the words & music of his first song, I Want to Take Care of Mother. By 11:45, when he went on the air for a broadcast, he had written 18, including Nuts to California ("You talk about your grapefruit, so full, so round, so big; they're the kind in Texas, that we feed to the pig."). Dave stopped only to take sandwiches and coffee. At 7:45 p.m.-15 minutes before the deadline-Dave finished his 52nd song. He called it It's Never Too Late to Forgive...
...Edward Roscoe Murrow. Three times, bombs destroyed his London CBS offices. The day after he moved into office No. 4, another raid gutted the synagogue across the street. He flew 20 sorties with U.S. and British pilots, sailed the Channel on a minesweeper, lay in a London gutter to broadcast the sound of an air raid. This week, after nine years in England, Ed Murrow was off to the U.S. for good. But before he left, he spoke an eloquent "Farewell and Hail" over...
...their class: Information Please, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
Loran shore stations always work in pairs: the "master" and the "slave" (see diagram). Both operate on the same frequency and both broadcast the same radio "pulse signals"-short bursts of radio energy transmitted at regular intervals. The pulse from the master station appears as a "pip" on the "scope" of the plane's loran receiver. It also sets off a second pulse from the slave station, which is received as a second pip. The pulses arrive at slightly different times, since they have traveled different distances...