Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Royal Birthday Celebration (Thurs. 3 p.m., MBS). Trooping the Color for George VI. by short wave from London...
...some 1,500 residents of Shawneetown, Ill., sheltered behind their 60-foot flood wall, lost contact with Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...
Anna Christie (Thurs. 10 p.m.. NBC-Blue). Eugene O'Neill's coal-barge classic revived in a short version for the Pulitzer Prize radio series...
...whole uncertain business of radio, broadcasters of house programs lead the most uncertain careers. And of all such radio ephemera, none is more ephemeral than the studio book critic. Efforts to put book talk on the air have generally been short-lived...
...Approved the New York Stock Exchange's extension of SEC's rules on short-selling to odd as well as round lots. In January, SEC forbade short sales except at a price at least | of a point above the last transaction; odd lots-less than 100 shares-were specifically exempted. Before long almost a third of all odd-lot business was in short sales. The seven odd-lot firms on the floor agreed that something should be done. The governing committee of the Exchange drew up the new rule one morning, notified SEC at noon, had it approved...