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...switches, plugs, tubes, grills, meters, other complicated instruments of broadcasting science. At 6 a. m. one cold, black morning last week, there stood brawny Harold Vivian, chief control room operator. He had been on duty all night making tests. Now he was watching the chief engineer and assistants inspect apparatus, establish contact with outlying stations. A hushed, nervous expectancy filled the room. In a half-minute they would begin broadcasting to 59 stations in the U. S. and Canada, a prime program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tingling Task | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

During his trip, Bingham will visit four universities having already made arrangements to inspect the athletic plants and observe the athletic program functioning at the University of Washington, University of California, Leland Stanford University, and the University of Southern California

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKING TOUR TO TAKE BINGHAM INTO FAR WEST | 1/10/1930 | See Source »

...President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio had been presented with a Doctor of Laws degree by George Washington University. After the ceremony conducted by Georgetown-President Cloyd H. Marvin, Señor Ortiz Rubio delivered in voluble if slightly uncertain English a few lofty sentiments; left on the morrow to inspect Niagara Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: No Fumar, No Beber | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Miami, to Latin-American countries. It cut its airmail rates from the U. S. to the South American west coast, and therefrom across the Andes to the Argentine. From cheaper rates, it expected more business. For goodwill, it arranged to carry a load of U. S. doctors to inspect northern South American districts when the Pan-American Medical Association meets in Panama City the end of this month. It ordered from Designer-Manufacturer Igor Sikorsky two of the largest amphibians yet made. These ships will have four motors, a total of 2,300 h. p., to carry 40 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...House bedside of Woodrow Wilson (TIME, Oct. 21). Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of Nebraska was another Senator who accompanied Fall to determine President Wilson's condition. Last week he assured Senator Cutting that Fall did not, as history has said, rudely snatch the bedclothes off the ill President to inspect him. Said Mr. Hitchcock: "Fall, who supposed President Wilson's right arm was paralyzed, was amazed when the President held up his right arm and shook the Senator's hand. . . . Fall had supposed Wilson mentally as well as physically incompetent. ... He came away from the White House completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: $100,000 & One Year | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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