Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street firing shots in the air. At the temporary jail, the crowd smashed windows and set it afire with wads of gasoline-soaked rags. Some of the mob kept fire engines away by lying prone in the street. Not finding the prisoner, the crowd next attacked the police station, burned it also. Next call was the stone Federal building, where Federal troops were drawn up with loaded rifles. As the mob approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed...
...major feature of the Boston College's Golden Jubilee Celebration being held this week, the debate, attended by an audience of over 400, was broadcast in its entirety over station WAAB. Ability of the speakers was put to a test over the highly controversial subject of "Resolved, That the New Deal program of business regulation is detrimental to the better interest of the American people...
Under the auspices of the Dramatic Club, Charles J. Olson, instructor in English, will give a talk on "Necessary Distinctions Between Drama, Cinema, Theatre," over station WAAB at 7:45 o'clock today...
...famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant ovaries swelled up just as though the blooms had been pollinated, the seed coats developed...
...mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3,000 more are shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that northwest lumber exports as a whole were off by half. Total burl production, including those going to domestic veneer manufacturers and those sent to New York by rail before being shipped to Europe...