Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...Senhorita Alicia Sampaio, daughter of the Brazilian consul general at Manhattan, christened a Sikorsky amphibian Pernambuco. It left New York for Pernambuco, its station, to be ready for the opening of its 8,500 New York Buenos Aires line on or about Oct. i. Formal opening depends on the start from New York of the 32-passenger Consolidated Commodore, biggest U. S. flying boat, which the company has just bought...
...Little has held many positions of importance in the scientific world, both at Harvard and with the Carnegie Institution Station for Experimental Evolution. He is a member of the American Society of Naturalists, the American Society of Zoologists, the American Association for Cancer Research, the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the Eugenic Research Association. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Remote Control. Effective plays may be fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...
This greatly annoyed Radio-Announcer Walter Brokenchild (Walter N. Greaza), a likeable, unctuous-voiced fellow, supposed to be a satire on real Radio-Announcer Norman Brokenshire of Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...