Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through the small hours. Frank Frewin Pinnock, 50, a London businessman arrested for reckless driving after a motor crash, pleaded "a mental blackout...
...three major U. S. broadcasting systems and several short-wave stations broadcast speeches to the four quarters of the earth. High point of the Congress came when Earl Baldwin (whom Dr. Butler in the excitement introduced as "Earl of Bewdsley") rose to speak. He began calmly...
...idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them to be sure to listen in. At Young & Rubicam's request, he bustled up to Manhattan two days before the scheduled broadcast, to show his stuff. In the agency's Madison Avenue skyscraper office, before a delegation of NBC officials, Mr. Klein, who at 37 still looks like Robert Taylor, fixed his fascinating eyes on a girl stenographer. -'You are going to sleep," said he, levelly, (ito sleep, to sleep...
This did not mean short wavers were busily peddling air time to advertisers who wanted to cry their wares abroad. No station yet has a sponsor, probably because distance broadcasting has not yet had an opportunity to prove its commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already...
...recording (the Hindenburg disaster). Last week, however, NBC stepped bravely out. Henceforth Canada Dry's Information Please, staged in Manhattan's Radio City on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 9 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time, will be recorded by Los Angeles' KECA instead of being immediately broadcast when it reaches the West coast at 4:30 Pacific Standard Time. The recording will then be transmitted over a "platter" network of seven NBC-Blue Coast stations at 8:30 p. m., Pacific Time, when most of the potential West Coast Canada Dry mixers have come home from golf...