Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short-wave broadcasting power is the 40 kw. of General Electric Co.'s station W2XAF at South Schenectady and Westinghouse's station W8XK at Saxonburg, Pa. But General Electric is building a 100 kw. transmitter to improve the service it sends on directional beam to South America. Germany lists its short-wave transmitter that operates from Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks at 40 kw. Great Britain's Daventry, with top power at 50 kw., sends its short-wave voice round the world. The Netherlands has two 60 kw. stations at Hilversum, which operate with unique beams...
Last week Italy boasted that it had beaten everybody. Premier Benito Mussolini put into operation the new Imperial Short Wave Radio Centre at Prato Smeraldo, on the outskirts of Rome. There the Italians have upped the power of two old 25 kw. transmitters to 50 kw. each, matched Moscow's RV96 with not one but two 100 kw. transmitters...
...Wave-Lengths. Buck Weaver likes to remark. "For years businessmen have used the expression 'The customer is always right,' but it never occurred to any one to try to find out what it was that the customer was right about...
...returns is one of Weaver's notable achievements. Working on a limited budget, he early decided that he could not compete with the elaborate offerings of direct mail advertisers. Instead, he makes his booklets chaste and subdued, thus getting his message heard, says he, much as a short-wave radio station competes with WJZ-i.e., by using a different wavelength...
...makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars are considered by the local constabulary as "cohabitation." They learn to care not when crass outsiders label their school a country club. With a wave of the hand they point out the facts: Is not our law school one of the best in the country? And to Vag they said: Did not one of your own famed Harvard graduates of '37 choose to come here and study with his beautiful young wife these past...