Word: watt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could bathe themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...
...speech before Conservatives in his constituency by Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary Harvie Watt, who described British second-front meetings as "violent political propaganda" and told off advocates of a second front with the remark that they "had never distinguished themselves by any great desire to shoulder arms...
...network claims that its ten stations can reach 21.7% of all the radio homes in the U.S., and that the package price for time on all ten is hardly more than for one of New York City's 50,000-watt stations...
When MacArthur withdrew to Bataan he took with him enough of Manila's dismantled station KZRH to make, on reassembly, a 1,000-watt medium-wave transmitter. Bataan thus became a fairly powerful rebroadcast point for short-wave programs from the U.S. The Japanese confiscated all the Filipino short-wave receivers they could find; but to have confiscated other radios would have interfered with their own propaganda purposes. That suited Competitor MacArthur...
...Yankee Network's 50,000 watt FM station in Boston, W43B, will broadcast the concert from Sanders Theatre, and the Crimson Network will carry the program, picked up on a special FM "tuner" to the University audience. During the concert intermission, the Network will leave the FM hookup to broadcast a resume of the finals in the University boxing championships directly from the Indoor Building...