Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article states: "[Pan Am's] Lisbon base for a time was the only Allied radio outpost on the Continent." As a wartime "rockape" or inhabitant of Gibraltar at Britain's Cable and Wireless station, I would protest that neither the Germans nor the Italians at any period of the war ever prevented Gibraltar from exercising its usefulness as a radio outpost...
Minutes passed before the Effingham volunteer fire department, awakened by the station-house siren, got from their beds to the firehouse; by the time the first engine had ended a screaming 70-mile-an-hour run, desperate patients were leaping out windows. Yelling firemen hurriedly began raising ladders. So did nearby householders. Other men & women dragged mattresses from their houses, tried to use them to break the fall of those who were poised to leap with the flames licking at them...
Nanking lies quiet and hushed in the soft spring evenings. In the cool, cavernous railroad station, less than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...
...Everybody thinks of radio as NBC," complained talkative, high-strung Bernice Judis. "That's silly. CBS doesn't like it-and neither do we." She was speaking for her own station, Manhattan's successful 10,000-watt WNEW, and for the 734 other radio independents (nearly half of all U.S. stations) who felt that they had been treated as stepchildren by the network-dominated National Association of Broadcasters...
Minors who use fake identification to get drinks in Boston bars will be "thrown into a patrol wagon and taken to the nearest station," according to the get tough policy announced this week by Mary E. Driscoll, Chairman of the Boston Licensing Board...