Word: radioman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks...
...Stars open the season against the Detroit Lions, National Football League champions. The All-Stars gained 184 yd. to the Lions 128, made 9 first downs to 5. Outplayed throughout most of the game, the Lions, vying for the honor of professional football and their owner, Radioman George A. Richards, rallied heroically in the last quarter, tied the score, 7-10-7. In New York, bookmakers made the All-Star team, about one-third of whom will themselves be playing professional football when the season opens next week, ;t05 favorites for their second game, against the New York Giants...
...stroke solved one of radio's most persistent problems: how to sell farmers who have no electric current and dislike hauling their batteries to town for recharging. Last June President McDonald heard of two Iowa farm boys near Sioux City who had worked out a miniature windmill-generator. Radioman McDonald went to see Brothers John & Gerhardt Albers, helped them form a company, contracted for their entire output. Since then Zenith has sold no less than 200,000 farm sets equipped with "Winchargers...
...does Zenith's president journey inland. Since 1929 he has lived winter & summer on his 185-ft. yacht Mizpah. In winter he ties up in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching...
...Radioman James W. Hodges, who learned his trade in a Kansas City drug store, was ordered to send out his first SOS signal just four minutes after the Dixie grounded. It was weak because the antenna had blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service...