Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loening Amphibians to be used in the MacMillan expedition (TIME, Apr. 20) passed their tests last week, after a highly satisfactory flight from Mitchel Field, L.I., to the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, Washington, D.C, and were formally accepted. In acceptance trials, the OL-1, as the Amphibian is officially designated, attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision...
Professor Lemaire is Assistant Director of the Ecole Centrale Lyonnaise. During the War he was in charge of the trans-atlantic radio station at Bordeaux, and in addition carried out researches on submarine acoustics...
...attached to a telegraph wire that carried the dots and dashes to powerful radio station KIE at Kahuku. There ether waves, 16,975 metres long, were given impulse as the dots and dashes came...
...them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...
...would have been simple enough to fling the signals on, to Europe, to Asia, even on around the globe to Hawaii whence they had started. Instead, Station RCA brought them down into a last telegraph line, shot them in to Manhattan...