Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seagirt. You will not be surprised if I find my memory turning at this time to the circumstances of my earlier visit. It happened on a hot July day, twelve years ago. I was one of a party of 200 or more who tramped in the dust from the station to the Governor's house at Seagirt. At our head marched that grand old Roman, Champ Clark, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives. We were calling on a Governor of New Jersey who had just received the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Most of that company, including...
...idea that there might be life-human life, animal life-on Mars, based on the existence of geometrical lines on the surface of the planet, led naturally to attempts to receive communications. Several radio stations, at the instance of Professor David Todd, of Amherst, were tempted to listen. Positive results were of course few. ¶In Vancouver, a radio station heard a regular series of dashes or zipps every day at certain hours; these, however, were explained as signals from "radio beacons" set up by the U. S. to assist vessels...
...Army airplane from Mitchell Field, L. I., flew above Central Park, Manhattan. The airplane carried a sending and receiving set and a similar set was erected in the park beneath. An officer in the sky then chatted with an officer on the ground. The receiving station on the ground amplified the aeronaut's words and the entire conversation of both men was sent by wire to the radio casting station of WJZ in Aeolian Hall, three miles away, and there put again on the air for radio fans to hear...
Anybody who drives his car up to a gasoline station knows that oil is an expensive commodity. The Government is speedily finding out the same thing. Last week it was admitted in Washington that the $100,000 which Congress appropriated for the special criminal and civil prosecutions in connection with the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases at Tea pot Dome and Elk Hills, respectively, was practically exhausted...
...Detroit, one Mrs. S. Billman visited her son. He escorted her to the station when she left, hugged her with violent affection, cracked...