Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready for use was a textbook designed to make the automobile as important to school children as the three Rs.* Devoting the first few chapters to the ABCs of the automobile, the book examines the psychology of the driver, summarizes road codes and signals...
...spruced up with apparently no place to go. For, with the $23,000,000, 550-acre North Beach project half completed, energetic Fiorello LaGuardia had won commitments from aviation's big five-Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air-that they would begin using the new field when it is opened officially next April 30. Pan American, which does not use Newark, planned to move in from its own base ten miles away at Port Washington. The others cagily announced they would use both North Beach and Newark...
...brighten the evening American, General Manager Connolly announced he would use two brand-new Hearstlings: Inez Callaway Robb, weaned away from Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News where she wrote a lively society column under the Newsname "Nancy Randolph," and Francis J. Powers, former sportswriter for the New York...
...station has 1,000 watts, will use most U. S. amateur wave lengths (5 m., 10 m., 20 m., 40 m., 80 m., 160 rn.). Two operators will keep it on the air twelve hours a day, handle League messages, broadcast amateur news to radio "hams." There are 49,000 licensed U. S. amateur operators, an enormous reserve on which the army and navy communications people depend for personnel in case of war. Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from...
Across the continent they talk, call each other "Old Man," but seldom meet. Their relative freedom in the use of U. S. air waves they credit to The Old Man (pseudonym under which Founder Maxim wrote for QST-see p. 67). When in 1914 Inventor Maxim was unable to reach with his Hartford transmitter a fellow amateur 30 miles away in Springfield, he arranged to have his message relayed by a third amateur operator, conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give...