Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio receiving sets in Germany, some 5,000,000 are equipped to receive short-wave broadcasts. Not generally known is the fact that the U. S. has quietly entered the short-wave news propaganda battle. Every day in the week for the past year and a half, NBC's 25-kilowatt W 3 XL, its power stepped up to the equivalent of some 150 kilowatts by a directional beam antenna, has sent in the direction of Germany's 5,000,000 shortwave receivers an hour of news, music and Americana calculated to reach Germans between eight and nine...
These communications and other news last week indicated a few hitches in the Reich's campaign to limit public information. The cheap People's Radios are designed to receive mainly the medium-waveband domestic German broadcasts. But the popular British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave news periods are frequently as easily received on People's Radios...
...short-wave bands, Germany's most galling intruder is Moscow, which, by some underground means the Gestapo has not yet uncovered, gets German news and broadcasts it back to Germany almost as soon as it happens. In spite of all the Reich's counteracting efforts, many Germans can and do learn what goes...
...riding in on a wave of prosperity, conservatives took over New Zealand, and though the Labor Party periodically showed its head (there were serious strikes in 1913, 1916, 1921-22), dominated politics and policies for the next 23 years...
Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she had heard his buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City...