Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handmaiden, Drummer Boy- Because there is a physical limitation on the number of commercial frequencies, Congress in 1927 passed a law declaring the air waves Government property. Wave lengths are merely "loaned" broadcasters for six-month periods. On the grounds that stations do not serve "public interest, convenience and necessity," the Radio Commission may at any time refuse to renew a license. Last week the Commis sion received unfavorable renewal reports on three experimental stations of Henry Ford, no friend of the New Deal. Result, claimed the Herald Tribune, was that radio served "as handmaiden and drummer boy to whatever...
...wave of buying broke over the copper market fortnight ago. In three consecutive trading days 41,000 tons were sold, equivalent to the output of all U.S. mines for two months at current production. Reason: domestic producers had notified the sales clearing agent of the Copper Code Authority that they were about to raise the price of copper from 8½? to 9? per Ib. Last week as the new price went into effect, sales slumped off considerably. Not in three years had coppermen been able to get 9?. When President Roosevelt took office they could get barely...
...Clough, Leverett House's head waitress, has her troubles. During the recent heat wave she discovered to her horror that one of the House members had slipped into the dining room without a neektie and without a coat. After about fifteen minutes' consideration, she edged up to the table where he was sitting and left this note beside his plate...
These words, tapped from a Manila-Detroit telephone call by short-wave radio sets, crackled into the home of many an eavesdropping Philippine resident. They recognized the voice of Bachelor Frank Murphy, their U. S. Governor-General, knew that he was talking about his official residence, low-rambling Malacanan Palace,* gathered that he was talking to a crony in the U. S. city of which he was once Mayor. His transpacific conversation was inadvertently public because the telephone company had not yet installed its "privacy bays" to scramble outgoing messages...
...method, she implies that a knowledge of contemporary types is all a novelist requires for such a reconstruction: "For the historian, the tombs of Egypt and his own contemporary mentality-for me, the contemporary mentality and a few photographs. . . ." Readers who were swept off their feet by The Wave (1929) will find it easy to keep their balance in the slow-curling eddies of Breathe Upon These Slain. But even when she is writing about dowdy English people Author Scott is incapable of turning out an undistinguished book...