Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current Harvard series of radio lectures on "Great Authors," Professor J. N. D. Bush will speak this afternoon on "Milton", at 4:30 o'clock over short-wave station WIXAI. The lecture will be broadcast from Emerson Hall...
...merely preoccupied with its past, the eminently practical Latter-Day Saints Church last week was planning solidly for its future. Before the Federal Communications Commission was an application for a Mormon short-wave radio station, to be built on the flat terrain, favorable for transmission, near the Great Salt Lake...
With approximately 1,000 young missionaries in foreign lands at all times, the Church proposes to train them in short; wave techniques, send them their instructions by radio, hear in return how the programs-news, music, lectures, little religion-are received. The Church's fourth man-in-command, Presiding Bishop Sylvester Quayle Cannon, informed the F.C.C. that $1,500,000 is immediately available to build the station. Furthermore, the Church makes $40,000 to $50,000 a year from its interest in Salt Lake commercial Station KSL. An examiner for the F.C.C. therefore reported that "the applicant is financially...
...which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
...broadcasting. The U. S. walked off with the largest allotment and has plenty of room today for its 13 licensed high-frequency stations. But the European sections of the bands have become crowded with Italy, Germany, Russia and, of late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political broadcasts. Europe would like some of the U. S. space but is little likely to get it at the Cairo meeting for the Pan-American nations last autumn agreed to back the U. S. in a bloc. Representing the U. S. was a commission of four, a staff...