Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arlington National Cemetery. Boss Batista eagerly left Cuba for the first time in his 37 years, turned up with his buxom lady, several aides and a trunkful of uniforms. His old enemy Sumner Welles, now Under Secretary of State, was the first to pump his hand at Union Station. To make the welcome royal, the U. S. Army band struck up the Cuban national anthem, and with a blare of trumpets gave the beaming Colonel a full general's salute...
King Haakon VII of Norway (Sun. 2 p. m., NBC-Red) speaks at the opening of Oslo's new short-wave station...
...bring U. S. television out of the laboratory, engineers have several tough nuts to crack. DuMont's head man, Allen B. DuMont, boasts that he holds the broken shells of three of the toughest. Hitherto each television station has been using six megacycles, almost six times the total wavelength space filled by 745 licensed stations in the U. S. broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done...
Silent since then, Cardinal Innitzer last week was once more reported in "protective custody," a plight in which presumably he had been for a month. The reporter of this news was an anonymous broadcaster from the Vatican radio station, speaking in English. The Cardinal, he said, had quietly requested that "several trustworthy persons who would leave Austria shortly" be brought to his palace, to behold the unrepaired damage done by the Nazis...
Quiet and aloof, Harry Wolfe is the opposite of Bob. Other present-day Wolfes are Old Bob's son, Edgar, and Harry's three sons, Robert, H. Preston and Richard. Each has an equal voice in running the family shoe business, banks (BancOhio Corporation) newspapers and radio station (WBNS). Only unanimous decisions are acted upon. The Wolfes also own Ohio Agricultural Lands, Inc.-5,536 acres of choicest farmland in nearby counties, where they raise 12,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle, feed 10,000 sheep a year...