Word: senders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WIJU is not yet a very strong sender, but Cochrane, who will major in Electrical Engineering, intends to build it up into a mighty power unit after mid-years "if all goes well...
...morning last week Coast Guardsmen stationed at Cape May, N. J. intercepted an SOS that shivered their timbers: "Any ship in neighborhood with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...
Suspecting more than water in the sender's room, the radio agencies ashore reported the whole business to the Federal Communications Commission, which got on the job late, but with the meagre direction finder information available, at week's end had narrowed down its search for the S O S sender to the vicinity of Tampa Bay. Possible penalty: $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
...will be nowhere nearly as big as RCA (or Philco Radio & Television Co. and Zenith Radio Corp. which are also equipped to make television sets), it has the strongest patent position in television outside of RCA. Philo Farnsworth owns 55 patents, has 78 pending, is positive that no television sender or receiver can be made without using some of his patents. But neither can Philo Farnsworth build a set without the patents of RCA's Zworykin, and so Farnsworth and RCA will cross-license each other...
Some characters are called by their real names. Puig was a Barcelona anarchist killed early in the Civil War; Captain Hernández was actually in command at Toledo. Others are thinly disguised: Abel Guidez is called Gardet in the novel; Ramón Sender, leading Spanish novelist, is the original of Manuel...