Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan Central Station was covered with flags. There was a reception committee of city officials. Aeroplanes circled overhead. A naval reserve unit was at hand to fire a salute. A train swept in, and Edwin Denby descended to meet Detroit's welcome. Factories and steamboats whistled. He marched to his car, and the Police Department band burst into melody...
...England radio broadcasting is a Government monopoly, administered as ai> educational agency, and all receiving stations are licensed at a fee corresponding to the number of broadcasting stations to which they desire to tune in. The beginning of what may be a similar development has appeared in the U. S. in the form of a "radio war" of independent operators against the four most powerful manufacturing and broadcasting corporations, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. The A. T. & T., which operates station WEAK, New York...
...modification. Secretary of War Weeks fears its provisions may hamper the Army's Signal Service. Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the Board of the Westinghouse Company, favors the creation of a super-radio broadcasting system under an interstate radio commission with broad powers. Six or more high-powered stations strategically located at focal points would be interconnected by wire or radio "pick-ups." In addition local stations would serve the various communities with material of local interest. The Westinghouse interests now control the nearest .approach to such a system. Their central broadcasting station, KDKA, at East Pittsburgh...
...clear the air. The American Telephone and Telegraph Co., in Manhattan, declared that it has not attempted and does not desire a monopoly of broadcasting; that broadcasting should be regulated by the Federal Government; that the company will grant rights under its patents for reasonable compensation to licensed stations; that its suit against WHN (TIME, March 17) was brought solely to protect its patents from infringement. The company also offered to lease its patents during their life to any licensed broadcasting station...
...several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones (instrument engineer of the experimental station at McCook Field) flew from Dayton (Ohio) to Mitchel Field, Mineola, L. I., far above the dangerous clouds, flying 'by dead reckoning alone and seeing no land for 450 miles. They broke the speed record for the trip, covering 575 miles in 3 hours 45 minutes in their...