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Word: hookups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five Minutes, Under orders from Reichspropaganda-minister P. J. Goebbels, every German store and factory had ceased activity, every radio loudspeaker in the Fatherland was supposed to be on the nationwide Reichstag hookup. Messengers and street sweepers were under orders to drop everything and rush into the nearest cinema where sound apparatus was attuned to Der Führer, and in iron tones the whole German people were told: "There can be no excuse for not having listened to every word spoken by our beloved Leader, Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Saturday Surprise | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...intramurals. John Weigel was a classmate, working his way through Ohio State as an announcer at the local radio station. They shared in common an enthusiasm for Ohio State's football team of that year. Now Joan is the heroine of "Renfrew of the Mounted" on a national radio hookup and is rescued over and over again. John Weigel has pushed his way forward, too, and is now a Columbia announcer out of the Chicago studios...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...hookup with Mutual meant Columbia had to have new California stations. They bought the State's most powerful independent station, KNX at Hollywood (50,000 watts), also KFSO at San Francisco, which this week will be added to the C. B. S. chain. N. B. C., not caught napping, went after four stations owned by the McClatchy newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: M. B. S. | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Registries Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers: At 11:45 p. m. Mrs.Simpson, having driven straight through in 20&3189; hours from Blois with only briefest stops, arrives to find haven with these old friends whom she first knew in China. In her bedroom a private telephone line and special hookup for instant connection through to England has been installed. Mrs. Simpson calls Fort Belvedere. At Cannes the first statement made for her is handed to reporters at the Hotel Majestic by Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania is the traditional Central rival, the two roads stood shoulder to shoulder on the question of the 2?-per-mile passenger fare, regarding B. & O.'s support of the rate reduction as nothing less than traitorous. New York Central's objection to B. & O.'s hookup with Keeshin was founded on sound competitive sentiments. It can provide B. & 0. with what amounts to an established store-door pickup-delivery system, a service New York Central is not ready to offer. Furthermore New York Central has a heavy stake in a service which provides shippers with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Freight Forwarding | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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