Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relaxed, eight-year regime of Herbert Y. ("Thanks a million") Cartwright was overthrown by George Roy Clough, a terrible-tempered businessman (radio and TV), who promised to maintain the city in a state of honest sin-to let the gambling and prostitution go merrily unchecked, but to cut out the protection payoffs. Clough's program worked well enough to win him re-election in 1957, but then things began to go sour...
...course, I realize that to the average man in the street who reads the N.Y. Times and the N.Y. Herald Tribune only, and hears such commentators on the radio as Edward R. Morrow, or Barry Gray it would seem that Dr. Bunche is a great and good man who has been persecuted without reason. But, when such an honor is being bestowed on him as being placed on the Harvard Board of Overseers I believe that the nominating committee should not be satisfied simply with newspaper statements on the qualities of any man, particularly about such a controversial figure...
...other people about Dr. Bunche in the Loyalty Board Hearings that occurred; but there is much other available testimony and much documentary evidence comparatively easy to obtain. Even if you and the nominating committee are unaware of the infiltration of left wing propaganda into our news media, press, and radio reports and editorial opinions unsupported by independent research, these should not be the sole basis for the award of any distinguished honor. The fact that the Daily Worker and other left-wing press were unanimous in stating that Dr. Bunche was entirely cleared should have put you on warning...
...station in Cambridge last week began to receive transatlantic radio messages bounced off the moon by a huge British radio telescope. The U.S. Air Force Research Center here picked up Morse code messages relayed off the surface of the moon from the British transmitter at Jodrell Bank. Later messages have been direct voice transmissions...
Although using the moon as a radio relay point is not a new technique, the Americans and British expect it to be a convenient way of keeping in touch without interference from ships and other radio users. The British radio telescope, the world's largest, is used for tracking American moon shots and satellites...