Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes before midnight. Straps of the electric chair in the Massachusetts state prison had been oiled, adjusted, inspected by the executioner. Machine guns had been placed along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
This railway starts at sea level (port of Callao) and crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...
...would need to peer no farther than the dashboard in his cockpit to stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves. But distance lessens their strength. If a pilot started straying off his course, the bulb...
...Complaints before the Federal Radio Commission call WHAP "the most virulent agency for anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish propaganda of the country." Mrs. Stetson's secretary and director of WHAP, one Franklin Ford, calls it "America's Protestant Broadcasting Station." Other heterodox stations are Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson's KFSG at Los Angeles, Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford's WBBR at Manhattan, Wilbur Glenn Voliva's WCBD at Zion City...
...about woman in the U. S. in her day or anyone's day. From her, Colonel Green inherited some $175,000,000. He used to be in the railroad business; but now he is retired, devotes most of his time and part of his fortune to a powerful radio station and experimental laboratory on his estate at South Dartmouth. He is glad to have scientists come there to work. As early as 1924, he succeeded in transmitting motion pictures by radio for a distance of 60 feet...