Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Science Service reported that hydroponics would soon get under way at Wake Island, the tiny speck of land in mid-ocean which Pan American Airways uses as a way station for its trans-Pacific Clippers. For Wake Island's barren half acre, hydroponics is a natural. In the mild tropical climate no greenhouses will be necessary. If the open-air tanks of mineralized water function as expected, Wake Island will have fresh beans, tomatoes and other vegetables for the resident personnel and for the Clippers' crews and passengers...
...Twenty hours of rehearsal are required for an hour of telecasting (an average of four hours for an hour in broadcasting). The dramatic material should be artistically equivalent at least to a Grade B movie, and the problem of scaring up enough of it to run even one television station all year round is fairly staggering. The live drama now being put out by NBC is about on a par with an early Biograph Film, minus Mary Pickford...
...croak for his Government Broadcasting Bill (TIME, May 16) than the whole Congressional swamp sang out for radio legislation. As soon as Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...
Nineteen Varsity trackmen leave from South Station this afternoon at 4 o'clock bound for Princeton for the fourth annual Heptagonal Meet to be held tomorrow at Palmer Stadium, Headed by Captain Alex Northrop, the group is composed of the stellar performers on the squad...
This afternoon the Vagabond will go to the North Station and board the 4:00 P.M. for Bennington, Vermont...