Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...
...California through its advertising agency Smith & Drum, Inc. introduced Mobilgas to the Pacific Coast with a radio program over all stations of the [then] Columbia Don Lee network which ran from 7:30 a.m. until midnight. The first 9½ hours and the last 3½ hours of this broadcast were continuous. Occasional interruptions between 5:00 and 8:30 p.m. were due to precedence of previously contracted transcontinental commercial programs. All this still left a clear uninterrupted continuous 9½ hr. program. For details see p. 74, April, 1934 issue of Tide...
Claiming that there was no immediate danger of a general European war on a large scale, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney professor of History, gave the fourteenth and final lecture Wednesday night in the series sponsored by the "Guardian" and broadcast over WAAB. His topic was "A Gilmpse of Europe...
...minor business mystery. Making up for the wasted years, the industry launched its fifth annual Life Insurance Week throughout the land last week with a series of "Early Birds Breakfasts" (8:15 a. m.). Local agents collected private and public bigwigs to tone up the breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual and the nation," sponsored teas, dances, dinners, lectures, concerts, fashion shows...
...sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned the word too loosely in a broadcast warning against "twisting." New York Life settled out of court. Some self-styled insurance counselors are indeed "twisters," though even more are simply insurance agents using the title as a merchandising scheme. State statute books are crammed with what insurance men call anti-twisting laws, but, based as they...