Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate his Seattle museum, "Maryhill" which provides the technical reason for her visit to the U. S. Seventy minutes after she landed at the Battery, Queen Marie and her party left Manhattan for Washington. On the way from the City Hall to the Pennsylvania Station the crowds became so unmanageable that the royal party was forced to enter the station by a side door and descend to the train in a freight elevator. A six-hour run brought Her Majesty to Washington where she was greeted at the station by Secretary of State...
Josef Hofmann, pianist: "There are many trials in my profession, involving as it does rapid and constant traveling. No sooner was I entrained from London for Folkestone, Eng., than my train was derailed, just outside Charing Cross Station. I was the first to leave the train; I walked the track swiftly back to the station, keeping a wary eye on the electric rail; I motored 70 miles to Folkestone, arriving in time for my concert...
...homes already own sets, another 21,000,000 families may buy them if radio broadcasting programs are high in quality and plentiful in quantity. To insure this industrial expansion, R. C. A. has just bought the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s (Bell System) Manhattan broadcasting station WEAF for $1,000,000 and organized the National Broadcasting Co. Inc. (M. H. Aylesworth, president). National Broadcasting will rent its station service for national advertising, including that of receiving set competitors...
...days when Harvard Square was a village centre--with the town pump and the hay scales in the middle of the square, with a small common used for tethering cattle where the present subway station is, were called out of the past by Mr. G. G. Wright of 20 Mellon Street, Cambridge, in an interview yesterday. Mr. Wright, President Emeritus of the Havard Square Business Men's Association, is the oldest business man in the Square. He is famous for his collection of old books, prints, and directories. Mr. Wright related to the CRIMSON representative yesterday his impressions...
...which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear were perfected...