Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow train will make a round trip to Plymouth, New Hampshire tomorrow, leaving Boston's North Station at 8.15 o'clock in the morning, and returning from Plymouth at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon at a special $2.50 rate...
...budget skyhigh, appropriating 4,600,000,000 yen (about $1,242,000,000) for war. Expensive as the accident had been, said General Itagaki, it would "not interfere in any way . . . with the sacred war in China." Neither did the mysterious fire in December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi. No one, it seems, knows what caused any of these accidents to Japan's armament program, but some war-weary Japanese guess sabotage...
...heaved forward as an enormous cloth, bearing the arms of the papacy, was suspended from St. Peter's balcony. Above it appeared a violet-clad form-Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni. Dean of Cardinal Deacons. Into a microphone which carried his words to loudspeakers in the Square, and through Vatican Station HVJ to radio networks throughout the world, the Cardinal said slowly and deeply...
...program; 3) ask in return only such donations as they care to send him. From Indianapolis for the past five years, a smart businessman named E. (for Emmett) Howard Cadle has been doing exactly that. Last week, celebrating the fifth anniversary of his broadcasts over Cincinnati's big station WLW, he counted as his own 330 radio-equipped churches, each with an average 220 Sunday listeners, in the rural districts of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia...
...Cruft laboratory, Harvard's famed center for research in communication engineering, are the experiments on sound, radio transmission, phonograph recording, and light, characteristics. Here is the station which maintains continuous automatic shortwave radio communication with Troy, N. Y. in an investigation of the ionosphere, the little understood deep-blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth a hundred or so miles from the ground and enable long-distance wireless communication...