Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Western Union operators in Boston were puzzled, last week, by a number of enigmatic telegrams sent from their station to various parts of the U. S. The messages appeared, at first glance, to be in code, but a closer scrutiny revealed that they were merely lists of names?Chinese names. Did some sinister purport lodge in these formal messages?a hint of vague hatreds, of malice palely half-smiling from faces as yellow as the telegraph blanks, and as inscrutable? It was hard to be sure. The police, at all events, evinced some interest in the messages; they were also...
Sticking hard to his intention to speak only English in the negotiations M. Caillaux addressed photographers who met him at Victoria Station with very carefully enunciated words...
...Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field of ice had taken...
...fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
Radio communication between the expedition and the U. S. continued successul, both in code and voice. Signals from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station (Lake Bluffs, Ill.) were received most clearly by Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin. Beside reports to the U. S. Navy Department and the National Geographic Society from Operator Reinartz of the Bowdoin, Chicago operators distinctly heard Song of the Snow Bunting, Song of the Raven, and Song of the Fox rendered by Singers Imyou-Getook, Kangak, Nu-Ka-pingwa and Ah-Kom-oing...