Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason. Navy Chief Arleigh Burke grabbed a radio telephone to Admiral Withington in Tokyo and learned the embarrassing truth: the Mercator lacked no parts. Its nose and top guns had been dismantled to make room for top-secret radar and infra-red gear, used in mapping and aerial photography. And the damaged Mercator was returning from a reconnaissance mission along the North Korean coast when it was fired upon...
...Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle of New Orleans, a catchy Tin Pan Alley jape about the rout of the British in the War of 1812: "I do suggest that this song be removed from the radio before Her Majesty's visit; otherwise she may get the impression that we are sadly lacking in manners...
...general strike in May of 1958, Spam's tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different. In the biggest flood of anti-Franco propaganda ever, they printed up hundreds of thousands of leaflets to prepare the workers to do their part when Radio Espana Independiente in Communist Prague gave the signal. To some of these leaflets they signed the names of liberal and Roman Catholic organizations that had not even been consulted. "A truly national movement!" cried the Communist radio. But when the big day finally arrived last week...
...TIME'S Mexico City Bureau Chief Harvey Rosenhouse walked toward a farmhouse in the jungled hills 90 miles east of Managua, he was met by Lawyer José Medina Cuadra, 30, leader of a group of 45 rebels. He and his troops, said Medina, were disheartened: "Our radio went dead. We were always short of food, and the peasants in these mountains do not have enough to spare." Medina was ready to give up. Rosenhouse sent a twelve-year-old boy to a nearby National Guard command post with a message on one of his calling cards: "Forty-five...
...Alarm. A bed that wakes the sleeper in the morning by raising him to a sitting position was announced by the Simmons Co. Plugged into a clock radio, the motorized bed rises slowly when the timer turns on the radio, TV, coffee percolator and phonograph, can also be raised for nighttime TV watching or meals in bed. Price...