Word: newark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yankees' outstanding pitcher, 26-year-old Atley Donald, is even more of a dark horse and even more of a twirlwind. Brought up from the minor-league Newark team last spring to learn the ways of the Big Time, the earnest Louisiana farm boy, who had gone uninvited to the Yankee training camp five years before to beg Manager Joe McCarthy for a tryout, was completely overshadowed by the famed Yankee pitching roster of Lefty Gomez, Red Ruffing, Monte Pearson and a half dozen others...
...importance of the Milkman's Matinee during its five small hours can be reckoned in other terms than sales figures and telegraph tolls. One Newark trucking firm has equipped all its trucks with radios, on the theory that Stan keeps night drivers from drowsing. When a murderer last year eluded the New Jersey police and hit for the highways, Stan sounded the alarm between recordings of Mexicali Rose and The Very Thought of You; within 15 minutes a lunchwagon proprietor had the fugitive cornered. Anxious parents like to have Stan broadcast his all-is-forgiven patter to runaways...
...headquarters of Press Wireless, surrounded by the barren salt marshes off Baldwin, Long Island, gathered engineers of Newark's publicity-wise Station WOR, good-natured Curator Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, newshawks, photographers, announcers standing by to tell all. Before sending their signal, the engineers spent forty-five minutes twirling the knobs of 40 short-wave receivers, trying to catch a signal from Mars, where the highest form of life is generally believed to be some low form of vegetation, possibly resembling moss. Result: a potpourri of short-wave noises, most of them promptly identified...
Stubby, ruddy Samuel I. Newhouse had worked his way from office boy to publisher of the Bayonne, N. J., Times, bought the Staten Island, N. Y., Advance and made it pay, reached out to acquire the Jamaica Long Island Press, the Long Island City Star-Journal, the Newark, N. J., Ledger. He was quietly buying an interest in the doddering Syracuse Herald when he heard about the Hearst-Burrill negotiations. Seeing a chance to control the evening field in Syracuse, Publisher Newhouse persuaded his backers to put up more money, offered $975,000 for the Journal and American, got them...
...nibbled at the Armstrong system. But the high-fidelity, interference-free programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.) are underway and others (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Washington, Milwaukee) are scheduled...