Word: watt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered. . . . But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase" (TIME, Dec. 9). Watt are you talking about? Ampère would feel complimented. Is it not well-established English orthography to lower-case such pioneers? Rudolf Diesel devised, in fact, such a unique power plant that it seems almost redundant nowadays to append to diesel, fully self-explanatory, the generic term engine...
...clamored for a chance to take Latin America by the ears. Since then the radio industry has sunk a fortune into shortwave operations, is now engaged in spending over $2,000,000 in improving its facilities. Many operators whose transmitters are below FCC's 50,000-watt minimum requirement are now busily engaged in boosting their short-wave power. By next year twelve of them will be blasting away...
...polyglot station is Manhattan's WHOM. Over its 1,000-watt transmitter are regularly aired programs in German, Italian, Polish, Greek, assorted other languages. But six times a week, near the end of its broadcasting day, WHOM goes enthusiastically native with George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy and his sidewalk interviews from Times Square. Jut-jawed and sardonic, McCoy is a 36-year-old Harlem Irishman who got into radio via publicity, after working as swimming instructor, peddling Easter-egg dyes and canned clams...
Today, besides XEW, Azcarraga, through Mexican Broadcasting Co., operates the 50,000 watt-station XEQ at Mexico City and the ornate Teatro Alamedo. With one of his brothers supervising a Chrysler assembly plant, another handling the distribution of RCA Victor sets in Mexico City, Azcarraga, known as Don Emilio to his intimates, makes plenty of time sales in the family circle...
...ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud ; the Rev. Sam Morris who daily lets fly on the evils of alcohol and Governor Wilbert...