Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borrowed transmitter and some receiving sets lent by Marconi Co. in 1935 made possible the first experiment in taking radio to the ryot. A.I.R. boldly chose for the experiment the turbulent Northwest Frontier, set up community sets, trumpeting Government propaganda. The villagers objected passionately, pegged rocks at the loudspeakers. That experiment was abandoned...
...have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...observation that current would pass in only this one direction through the tube was first put to work thirty years ago by J. A. Fleming, an English physicist, who saw a possible use for this feature in the detection and rectifying of radio signals, then being pioneered by Marconi...
...Duce when the Dictator was resisting Sanctions: "DO NOT SOIL YOURSELF AT THE FOUL-SMELLING SEWER IN GENEVA STOP REMAIN IMMOVABLE IN CONTROL OF YOUR PLACID HILARITY." Last week d'Annunzio agreed happily to become Ass No. 1, succeeding the late great President of the Academy, Guglielmo Marconi. European females of fashion are still invited by 74-year-old d'Annunzio to visit him in his eccentric villa on Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive...
Back to the U. S. after visiting Italy returned R.C.A. President David Sarnoff. Said he: "At the time of his death it was published widely that the late Senator Guglielmo Marconi left a fortune of about $25,000,000. As a close friend of Marconi for many years, I saw the members of his family while in Europe. They told me that the gross value of the estate left by the Senator will not exceed...