Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week in Chicago. The Zenith Radio Corporation (WJAZ) of Chicago, hampered by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's administrative regulation that it have only two hours' broadcasting time each week, decided to make a test case of his authority. They deliberately prolonged their broadcasting time on their licensed wave length (322.4 meters; also that of General Electric's Denver Station KOA), and deliberately used the wave length of Canadian stations...
...WJAZ could snatch without restraint at any wave length it pleased, other stations could do the same. Aerial chaos would result. So radio listeners with $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 invested in receiving sets waited for a court decision. More anxiously waited the radio manufacturers and broadcasters, who realized keenly that broadcasting must be constant over wave lengths and time...
...only one. This statute regulates the licensing of manufacturers, producers and experimenters in radio, gives little discretionary powers to the Secretary of Commerce over regulating broadcasting, provides few regulations in itself. This statutory lack Secretary Hoover has filled by his administrative orders, among others the assignment of wave lengths and of broadcasting hours...
Lucky Seven. Finance Minister Peret had the satisfaction of seeing this wave of fear carry his fiscal program (TIME, April 5) past the shoals upon which his six immediate predecessors have had their fiscal projects wrecked...
...name "Baby Gar" and a numeral. One day last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope...