Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radiomen's term for a station low in wattage, listening area and prestige...
...Philharmonic Symphony Society to a classroom lecture by a geology professor. Although over 40% of the programs on the major radio networks are labeled "educational," most schoolmen feel dissatisfied and frustrated over the achievements of radio as an educational medium. Last week as 18 organizations composed of educators and radiomen met for a Conference on Educational Broadcasting, called by the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, this feeling was fully and freely aired...
...obstacle to which radiomen and educators alike devoted much earnest thought last week was the inability of educators to fill free time with interesting programs. President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America bluntly declared: "Radio programs can be created to inform the mind and elevate the spirit, but when one seeks to impose upon them the requirement that they also furnish mental training and discipline, one narrows their appeal and risks the dispersion of the invisible audience...
...with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed the Institute of Radio Engineers that some waves had been detected jogging along with less than half their theoretical velocity, at speeds...
...Route. When the President goes junketing to Hyde Park or Warm Springs, three cars usually take care of his whole party. But last week's journey was more than a junket. It took three of the train's ten cars to hold all the photographers, radiomen, reporters and Secret Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama...