Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entered some Hungarian gendarmes with drawn pistols, forced Vincent Pecha to throw up his hands, searched him, clapped gyves upon his wrists. In the room next to the station restaurant "a secret military document" was found. Using suitable pressure, the Hungarians got Pecha to admit having hidden...
...Vincent Pecha, Czech railway ticket-agent, was making a comfortable meal of fried veal and beer in the station restaurant at Hidas Németi, Hungarian frontier town...
First step in Radio Corp.'s change from communications to entertainment came with the development of music and voice broadcasting. Endowed with many a vital patent (it has licensed 25 set-makers to manufacture under its patents), Radio Corp. grew with radio, found that Station-to-Home transmission was far more profitable a business than Shore-to-Shore or Ship-to-Shore transmission. In 1921 Radio Corp.'s entertainment business totaled some $1,500,000, or about 36% of the company's total business. In 1922, entertainment totaled same $11,250,000, or about 80% of total...
Stone & Webster, Inc., has built power stations representing 10% of the total central station capacity of the U. S., supplying 20 million U. S. inhabitants with light and power. It has also built many an office building, factory, hotel, and the present Massachusetts Institute of Technology building in Cambridge. Directorate of the new company will include Joseph P. Grace, Board Chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. ; Albert H. Wiggin, Board Chairman of Chase National Bank; Herbert L. Pratt, Board Chairman of Standard Oil of New York...
...addition to its department store business, L. Bamberger & Co. operates Station WOR, over which it has long broadcast itself as "one of America's great stores...