Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...
Illness again stepped into the first Crimson eight yesterday when Sam Drury had to captain his crew from the observer's seat in the coaching launch. He had a slight cold and to minimize the chances of further hampering ills and ailments, it was thought better to move Bobbie Cutler from two to stroke. Sam will be back today and Ed Simmons will also settle into his old post at number four. Simmons returned yesterday to the first shell but only as number two and Austin took the fourth sweep with other seatings remaining the same as on Tuesday...
Harvard's third varsity crew, closely followed by a coaching launch, was rowing on the Charles River near Cambridge when an engine explosion fired the launch. Under coach's orders. Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., No. 2, and crewmates sat helplessly by, watched the burning launch drift ashore...
...Banquet. The whole row was started by General Hugh S. Johnson. Having written the Blue Eagle's biography for the Saturday Evening Post, he was now about to launch his own in Redbook Magazine, which more than 20 years ago printed stories by Lieut. Hugh Johnson entitled "The Suffragette Sergeant" and "Fate's Fandango." As a send-off for the series, Redbook gave Autobiographer Johnson a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The General paid for his meal with a speech...
Injuries: loss of some of Manager Phil Angier's eyebrows, some of Whiteside's temper, and $4500 worth of launch; asset: driver Arthur Sampson has what Swift & Co. call "smoked hams...