Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obey the local WPAdministrator's request to oust sit-down strikers from WPA offices, a delegation of mayors had invaded Washington, demanded continuation of Relief at November levels, offered to lobby a new Relief appropriation through Congress as soon as it meets in January, sent an indignant wireless to Franklin Roosevelt...
While the Indianapolis drove southward through a storm its wireless crackled. Lest President Agustin Justo of Argentina feel left out, Franklin Roosevelt, even before meeting him, hastened to invite him also to the U. S. Also a request went to Pan American-Grace Airways, that the 40-passenger Pan American Clipper be held at the U. S. President's disposal in case he, having found the fishing much better on land than at sea, decide to return home...
...ordinary antenna, this one has a diameter of a good sexed ship's cable, and wireless experts gave it as their opinion that the fortunate radio to which it is attached could broadcast election returns to China, provided anyone cares in Cathay...
Flyer Bjorkvall did not drown, but he nearly did. After fighting heart-breaking weather for 2,400 befogged and snowy miles, he suddenly found his engine overheating. With great luck he encountered a French trawler, succeeded in plopping safely into the chop beside her. Gushed he by wireless next day: "I felt myself being lifted over the rail while a voice cried, 'Courage, mon brave!' I believe that, for the first time in my life, I must have fainted...
...hardbitten, hardworking, unaffected, forever asking two great questions that set the theme of the book: "Where to? What next?" Sandburg puts down with equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms of everyday work, the hazards of steelmaking, of mining, of railroading. He records the last words of a wireless operator on a sinking ship ("This is no night to be out without an umbrella!") and the names of railroads: The Delay Linger and Wait is the D. L. & W., the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western...