Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short-wave radio voice belonged to an Alaskan schoolteacher doubling as practical nurse in the remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...
...spotted with a succession of little horrors. We see the two convicts with nooses around their necks, surrounded by an angry mob; a woman's voice pipes up, "What you menfolks goin' t' do?" The pursuing posse includes a little man who plays rock and roll on a portable radio--so that, with each flashback, the audience will remember who these people...
...Navy last week announced contracts to build a radio telescope costing $60 million. The project has two defense purposes: 1) the telescope's enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able...
...spread the work around, unions are clamoring anew for a shorter work week. Steelworkers' Boss David McDonald announced last week that he will press for a shorter week in 1959. Recently, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers offered to pass up an automatic 7% wage boost over the next two years if General Electric Co. would put in a 37½-hour week at 40 hours' pay. G.E. refused, said the offer actually would boost its wage bill by 14%. The union drive for a shorter week will undoubtedly be spurred by the recession-hastened cuts, which...
Died. Phil Cook, 65, jaunty, guitar-strumming comedian of early radio, best known as the "Quaker Oats Man" who could play as many as 13 different parts on one show in a baffling variety of voices; after long illness; in Morristown...