Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twins Chester & Leo Froelich, 9; John Rudecki, 9, and his 8-year-old brother Walter; Walter Miranda and his 6-year-old brother Norbert. John Rudecki, the only one who tried to escape, was extricated with difficulty from between the blades of a ventilating fan. Bundled off to the station house, they were lined up, photographed (see cut), bound over to their parents pending a hearing this week. The raiders explained they did not like their principal...
...natives set fire to the store, radio station, warehouse, and as we put out we could see several houses burning," said Physician-Commissioner Fields. "We "hoped to find a vessel at sea which would take us to Nassau. However, after cruising several hours we ran out of fuel, and our motor broke down. We drifted for four days at sea without food or water...
...medical inspection of passengers and crew. All a ship surgeon need do is to wireless his line's Manhattan office, twelve to 24 hours before docking, certifying that no cases of dangerous contagious disease are aboard. This message is relayed to New York Harbor's quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island. Chief Quarantine Officer Dr. Charles Vivian Akin then allows the ship to pass directly up the harbor, thus saving hours for the passengers, hours and dollars for the ship's operators (TIME, Feb. 1). The Hansa was one of 84 ships having this privilege...
...World Wide Broadcasting Foundation ("radio programs of cultural and educational value") operating through Boston's short wave station WINAL, got $40,000 for two years. C. Last autumn there was published in London, with Foundation help, a list of 1,639 scholars (''Scholars in Exile") who had been ousted from academic posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities...
...comparable legal question involving radio broadcasting arose in connection with the Joe Louis-Tommy Farr fight at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. Buick Motors bought the exclusive broadcasting rights to the fight for $35,000. Transradio Press Service, Inc. and Radio News Association, Inc. whose business is supplying radio stations with news for broadcasting, announced that they would furnish running accounts of the fight for $10 per radio station. Buick's advertising agency, NBC whose network was being used by Buick, the fight promoters and the fighters went to court asking $100,000 damages and an injunction. Judge Ferdinand...