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Word: metered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperadoes as the Midwest had ever known. The Government met ruthlessness with ruthlessness. First Dillinger man to go down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed a sheriff while helping his chief escape from jail at Lima, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two for One | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Harvard Amateur Radio Club last night voted to build a five-meter transmitter with which to establish communications with the Oak Ridge Observatory station. Officers were elected and an executive committee chosen. The committee consists of Robert S. Foster '37, William J. Hammond '37, Robert V. Langmuir '35, Elmer F. Morgan '37, and MacDonald Nyhen '36, while the officers are: Gurdon R. Abel '37 treasurer; Elmer F. Morgan '37, station manager; and MacDonald Nyhen '36, secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amateur Radio Club Elects Officers at Its First Meeting | 11/23/1934 | See Source »

...newly organized Amateur Radio Club may establish communication between the Oak Ridge Observatory and the Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, it was learned yesterday. The club, which has received a room in the Astronomical Laboratory in which to work this year, hopes to build a five-meter transmitter to make it possible to contact the Oak Ridge institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Club May Establish Oak Ridge Communication | 11/21/1934 | See Source »

...well-built, Donald Douglas at 42 looks younger than his years. He shuns crowds, prefers the company of a few old cronies. A mediocre pilot, he rarely flies his own planes but does most of his business traveling by regular airlines. His days off he spends yachting. His six-meter boat Gallant represented the U. S. in the last Olympics, and his schooner Endymion has been Pacific Coast champion for the past four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Douglas | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...survey further recommends that not only should meter patrol, radio, flashlight recall system, and patrol booths be increased but also that the methods for coordinating that work of the police units, be improved, so that the whole force can be mobilized in a given emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CRIME SURVEY PUBLISHES NEW VOLUME | 11/13/1934 | See Source »

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