Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision the Debating Council defeated Vassar in a debate yesterday afternoon, broadcast over Station WAAB on the subject, Resolved: That women should declare their independence from fashion...
...country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion, which assigns European broadcasting frequencies, and broadcasts loudly and persistently on Erin's assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania, Italy. With all three going at once in opposition, all England usually...
...From Berlin last week an irate Nazi newscaster griped: "The New York short wave broadcasting station (NBC's W3XL) contributed lying news yesterday during a news broadcast given at the same time the Fiihrer was making his speech." The objectionable items, quoted from British newspapers, were: 1) that Hitler might have to undergo a second operation on his throat; and 2) that German troops were massing near the French and Italian borders. What obviously had the Nazi back up was not NBC's news, but the fact that too many Germans were listening to it when they should...
...weary Harvardite returning to Cambridge after a strenuous New York weekend had the good fortune to witness an exceptional example of this Service. Before the train pulled into each station the conductor would poke his head inside the door and moan a sorrowful "Stamford," or "Bridgeport," or "Saybrook." However when the train was approaching the captial of Rhode Island, the monotony was broken. The conductor opened the door to make his usual station identification, but he was a changed man. The sterling spirit of the N.Y., N.H. & H. asserted itself as he loudly proclaimed. "The next station is Providence, just...
CHATHAM, Mass.--The Holland-American liner Veendam and the American Scantic liner Scanmail radioed the radiomarine station here at 7:50 p.m. tonight that they had not picked up survivors of the British freighter Maria de Larrinaga...