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...Washington correspondents, one of the nation's smallest publications is also one of the most important. Its name is Congressional Quarterly, and its circulation is a mere 3,000. But it is a gold-plated list. More than half the members of Congress subscribe to CQ; 282 top U.S. papers take it. Every week (despite its name) CQ goes out to more than 300 organizations, ranging from labor unions to the American Medical Association, which pay up to $1,000 a year for the service. They are willing to pay well because Congressional Quarterly provides the only authoritative weekly...
Radio "hams" who were ordered to dismantle their sets and get off the air on Dec. 7, 1941 began putting their sets together again. They were once more free to stay up all night hoarsely calling "CQ CQ CQ" into a microphone, without being suspected of espionage...
...move was a technical one. Mr. Broderick intends to proceed nshiappealbyi J?gd,cq,.awritof" --New York Herald Tribune...
...Calling CQ...calling CQ...CQ" can be heard nightly rolling down the dim staircase from the heights of Weld Hall. Not the police, not Admiral Byrd, but John McG. Cochrane '43, the only undergraduate who runs and operates his own transmitting station here at Harvard...
From 6 p. m. till sunrise one night last week the air waves below the commercial broadcast band crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development...