Word: marconis
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...wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal with a Marconi company. As Minister of Munitions in 1915 he was praised for his efficiency, but the next year when he was Prime Minister, he was scolded for meddling in military matters about which he knew very little. Ever since the War he has been criticized for helping to bungle the Versailles Treaty...
...contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure's Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry and Willa Gather, popularized Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle in the U. S., published the first magazine articles on the Xray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine, paved the way for modern, big-circulation magazines...
Descendant of Nordic sea captains, big, blue-eyed Edward Nicholas became a wireless operator on Great Lakes steamers about the time radio got into the dictionary. He left the sea to manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth...
...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...