Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shawnee, Okla., Franklin Roosevelt paused to lend the radiance of his smile to another kind of personage. The station crowd guffawed when he declared...
Flung into a melon market near the Central Police Station on the waterfront at Haifa, Palestine's chief port, an exploding bomb last week killed 14 Arabs. A riot developed. Blood-hungry Moslems, convinced that a Jew had hurled the missile, began to pummel and stone Jewish passersby. Shots were fired into the predominantly Arab crowd, increased the casualties to 21 Arabs killed, 92 wounded; six Jews killed, eleven wounded...
...celebrate Portugal's Holy Queen religious festival, gathered, and 20 youngsters, many of them sons of the firemen, clambered into an old four-story frame building. The boys were paid 45? to play the part of "tenants." The firemen, having doused the structure with gasoline, retired to their station 400 yards away to await the alarm...
...Lemmon rigged on the roof over the commissioner's hearing room a temporary aerial, demonstrated a typewriter on which the keys click in response to radio impulses, picked up a message typewritten through the air from a Georgetown laboratory. Engineer Lemmon told the commission that one television station wavelength assignment would be roomy enough for 1,125 radio-typewriter channels, asked that his company be assigned wavelength space as wide as one television station is for experiment with radio business machines...
...Conference, devised a pioneer ship-to-shore telephone service for that trip, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control and twenty-odd other radio inventions. Also a broadcaster, he is founder president of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation which owns and operates non-profit shortwave Station WIXAL (Boston), dips into his own pocket to broadcast New England enlight enment to the world...