Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the United States in 1920 against Ohio Publisher Warren Gamaliel Harding, stepped from a plane in Atlanta to announce that he had bought two papers: the Atlanta Journal and William Randolph Hearst's Atlanta Georgian. With them he got the Journal's 50,000-watt radio station, WTSB, and a 40% interest in another, less important transmitter, WAGA...
...Toronto recently Correspondent Hugh S. Watt of the London Daily Telegraph, with the Times the newsorgan closest to the British Government, significantly told Canadians: "I can say on the very best authority that British political circles are thinking in terms of federation after the war. I believe they are ready to give up certain essential elements of sovereignty in order to establish some form of world order...
...commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy or Kate Smith in sight, but Transcontinental had hope. At week's end, TBS had 65 stations signed up, mostly low-watt independents, a few from the upper crust...
...pneumonia, cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise which greeted sulfanilamide, are waiting for further confirmation of the drug's efficacy...
Still hopeful, the engineers proceeded to the main experiment: a signal sent by remote control from a 100,000-watt transmitter 10 miles away at Hicksville, L. I., the antenna of which pointed toward Mars at an angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession of dots and dashes. Astronomer Fisher and associates figured that if the signal traveled 36,030,000 miles and back at 186,000 mi. a second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After...