Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington jail, Oilman Harry Sinclair had hoped to hear the Preakness results over the prison radio (see p. 12). But the radio would not work. He had to wait for the newspapers. When he read them he discovered that one of his horses, Patroness, had won a preliminary race...
...Confirmed the nominations of: George T. McDermott, Orie L. Phillips, Curtis Dwight Wilbur as U. S. circuit judges; Julius Klein as Assistant Secretary of Commerce; William D. L. Starbuck and Charles McK. Saltzman as Federal Radio Commissioners; Raymond S. Patton as Director of the Coast & Geodetic Survey...
...boys here.We'll put him to work and hope he likes it. . . ." Convict Sinclair will share "his 8-by-6 cell with another prisoner. He will rise at 5:30 A. M.; retire at 9 P. M. For amusement he may read books, listen to the radio. It will be hot in this jail during the summer. If all goes well for him, Sinclair will be free...
...flying will have more effect on future air transportation than anything else. For landing we will, I think, be able to use intersecting radio beams, sonic altimeters and other instruments...
...Austrian Minister of Commerce (Dr. Hans Schürff) aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing...