Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following the transfer the new incumbents of each station were to be allowed a week to prepare a similar statement. Mayor Mackey planned...
fears twinkled in the eyes of King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week. He was standing in Euston Station, London. He was listening to Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Marquis de Merry del Val.* As he listened, the tears trickled down his olive cheeks, and correspondents counted three...
Radio Lamp Lighters. Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts...
...airport, built to be the great western terminal of transcontinental air lines opened last week. To land there are the Manhattan-bound mail planes from Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Montreal. The port has two 700-ft. runways each a half mile long, a postoffice building, radio station, meteorological station besides the usual hangars, administration buildings and machine shop. Eventually an elevated highway without crossings will be constructed towards New York Harbor so that plane mail can be rushed into the city in 33 minutes. The lag now is nearly an hour...
Bert R. J. Hassell and Parker D. Cramer, Rockford, Ill., to Sweden flyers, long lost in Greenland, last week arrived by boat in Denmark, enthusiastic about Greenland as a way station for trans-Atlantic flyers, full of plans for another attempt...