Word: marconis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
...Senator was amiably evasive until later in the day when his great good friend, chunky David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America, presented him to the Press in R. C. A.'s magnificent new headquarters in Rockefeller Center."First," said Senator Marconi, "put me wise to what is taking place over here." He enjoys U. S. slang, asked particularly whether the phrase "cold feet" had changed meaning since 1927 when he was last in the U. S. (honeymooning with his second wife, who again accompanied him last week). Then Senator Marconi told what he has learned about...
...international championship for star boats-slim, 22-ft. sloops with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack...
Wherever there is blue water and a sheltered coast, you are likely to find "star" boats-slim little 22-footers with tall Marconi mainsails and narrow cedar hulls. Last week a galaxy of their pointed rigs sparkled in Havana Harbor, racing for two trophies which star boat skippers prize only a little less highly than the International Championship-the Cuba Cup, four feet high, biggest yachting cup in the world; and the Bacardi Cup, put up by the late rum-distilling Facundo Bacardi...
...issue of TIME carried an article entitled "Marconi's Parabola." I would like to know if any domestic radio companies have successfully developed transmitting and receiving equipment along these lines, and also whether Marconi has representation in this country...