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Word: stationing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reacted to the news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to save water. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, and radio announcers ceaselessly proclaimed the emergency. Station WOR distinguished itself in particular with a doggerel sung to the tune of Turkey in the Straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: How Dry I Am | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...much character; it's just a darn good car." Lacking the rustic qualities of a Model T or the urbane class of a Rolls, the car amazed its owner recently by apparently running 10 miles on an empty gas tank and coming to a dead stop before a gas station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Jalopies' or 'Antiques,' Some Student Cars Go On Forever | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...discussing non-profit radio stations, Kaltenborn said that the Harvard Radio Network's programs were just as "wicked" as the professional stations, only probably not as well presented. He commented that men at the University probably preferred to listen to regular networks, rather than the local station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Panel Criticizes Standards of Radio Industry | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Smith women will hear five hours of Harvard radio programs tomorrow night when 24 members of WHRB descend on WCSR, the Smith College Radio Station, to broadest their own programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Will Give Program at Smith | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Last week, gleaming with fuchsia and olive-green paint, station KOTV held its grand opening. Swarms of prominent Tulsans were disappointed when the Hollywood stars who had been announced failed to show up. But beauty was well represented by Tulsa-born Singer Patti Page, who arrived in a Cadillac, mink and diamonds; and by Helen Maria Alvarez herself who, though too busy to buy a new costume, looked more than satisfactory in a three-year-old lace dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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