Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump to a commission. Radio is an example. Last week radiowners throughout the U. S. made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas. In the Hoover view, radio's difficulties would be better handled in the Department of Commerce, where radio regulation rested before Congress declined Mr. Hoover's advice. It would not be surprising...
Argentinians felt closer to Europe than usual, when the not yet officially open short wave radio-telephone station at Buenos Aires was placed at the disposal of a somewhat sick and very wealthy woman who desired to consult her physician in Berlin "about a private illness." After a 20-minute conversation, she emerged beaming, reassured. Gallant reporters concealed her identity...
...grand pageant of assumption of the Imperial Station proceeded amid ancient things and ceremonies whose very names and meanings are untranslatable. However, since the Tenno did sit upon what amounted to a chair, one may stretch a point and call the occasion his Enthronement...
...first, lasting from eight to eleven in the morning, informed the Imperial Ancestors that their descendant had now assumed his full Imperial Station. The second ceremony - of chief interest to Occidentals on account of the chair - culminated at 3 p. m. and was, in essence, simply a proclamation by the Son of Heaven to his People that he is now Tenno. This was the "Coronation" proper...
News of Dr. Kolster's latest invention developed last week as work went on to set up an experimental station near his Palo Alto, Cal., home...