Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain protested officially and unofficially. Italy's answer was to increase the Bari broadcasts and then start distributing to Arabs radios that could be tuned in only on the Italian station. Lately Britain has retaliated with radio sets...
...carrier system familiar to most department store customers, the 8-inch tubes of the underground mail service resemble gas mains, the containers that glide through them at 30 m. p. h. are about the size of fire extinguishers. As there is no switching, every carrier pops out at each station, is retained or passed on according to its destination mark. Motive power in the tube is a current of air blown into the system from powerhouses en route. Each 120-lb. steel container holds up to 500 letters. Every day the system efficiently carries 6,000,000 of Manhattan...
Seventeen years ago last week, in smart Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
...Boosted to the presidency of William Randolph Hearst's ten-station radio chain, the President's second son, Elliott Roosevelt, became a big man in the Hearst empire, charged with full and heavy responsibility for making money out of a $2,000,000 string of stations in Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. For two years Elliott ably managed Hearst's southwest network and only three months ago took charge of the West Coast outlets. In October (TIME, Nov. 11), Hearst's 27-year-old Radioman Roosevelt...
...Father often said he felt at a disadvantage for having started in newspaper work at the top and wanted me to start at the bottom." When George Barry Bingham graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, he traveled two years, did a stint at Bingham radio station WHAS, then went humbly to work as police reporter on his father's Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. By the time Publisher Bingham became Ambassador to England in 1933, Barry Bingham was well on the way to the co-publishership he earned in 1935. Last week 31-year-old Barry Bingham, the late...