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Word: station (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans are also being made to visit industrial plants near Boston, a television broadcast, a radio station, other hotels, a department store, and musical and drams programs. This is in addition to weekend visits and afternoon stays in American homes, under the sponsorship of the Hospitably Committee of the International Origination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Groups Will Enliven Foreign Students Vacations | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...former subway exit near Wadsworth House on Massachusetts Avenue will retain its new status as an "open station"--an entrance as well as an exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotary Traffic Abandoned; Square Returns to Normal | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...only outfit with a color system that works well at present, it will offend the manufacturers of black & white sets and their dealers, who are prospering on the status quo, and who fear that any promise of color will make the public stop buying. It will offend many TV station owners, most of whom, now living on hope and money transfusions, dread the greater cost of color telecasting. It will also offend Radio Corporation of America, No. 1 operator in the industry, which manufactures black & white sets, is a leading telecaster in black & white, and has a still-experimental color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...them is a system of "dichroic mirrors" (see below) which allow each tube to "see" in one color only. All three tubes scan the scene continuously, but an electronic switching device, turning their signals on & off 11.4 million times a second, allows each tube to transmit over the telecasting station only one-third of the time. In this way the "video signals" from all three tubes are strung together like trains made up of red, blue and green freight cars, and sent over the air on one wave band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Last Resort. In Des Moines, after Donald E. Mosher broke into a filling station and found nothing of value, he put his last nickel into the telephone, dialed police to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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