Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ation of photographic plates made at the Harvard astronomical station at Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...secured control of the Long Island Railroad. In 1901 it got permission from New York City to build tunnels under the Hudson and a great terminal on Seventh Avenue. Mr. Cassatt died in 1906, was succeeded by James McCrea, under whom the tunnels were, completed (1910) and the Pennsylvania Station was formally dedicated. Mr. McCrea also completed the East River tunnels and began work on the Hell Gate Bridge, which links the Pennsylvania to the New York, New Haven & Hartford and makes Manhattan a way-station between Washington and Boston...
Climax was a War baby. Sired in 1917, by American Metal, the company took over huge ore deposits near Climax, Colo., a little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...
...London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London. About July 1, when manufacturers have had a chance to test their sets, the station is expected to start three-hour daily programs. British enthusiasts, who call themselves "televiewers," have been promised sets...
...result of this, Mr. Conant, accompanied by Mr. Green, will rush to the Boston broadcasting rooms of station WBZ immediately after the meeting in Cambridge, and Mr. Conant will be forced to repeat his address at 10 o'clock for the benefit of the radio audience. It will be relayed over WJZ, New York, and a nation-wide network...