Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the finding of the two starved corpses on Marchena Island, 160 miles north of Charles Island, that was all the outside world knew. The baroness had vanished. Radio Revivalist Phillips Lord ("Seth Parker"), cruising offshore, reported by wireless that he had dined with the Wittmers only the week before, that the second body could not be Mrs. Wittmer's. Soundest theory seemed to be that Rudolph Lorenz (who may or may not have murdered the baroness) was picked up by the Norwegian fisherman Nuggerud for the trip to San Cristobal Island where Lorenz could take schooner passage...
Another 75 radio clients receive a limited news budget by short-wave wireless. Transradio boasts ten full-fledged bureaus in U. S. key cities, 540 active string correspondents. It gets its foreign news from France's Havas, Britain's Central News. Proudly Transradio declares that the U. S. Press, for all its bitterness, has never openly accused it of lifting news out of domestic newspapers. One reason Transradio functions like a press service is that its head man, Herbert Moore, is an oldtime UP correspondent with eight years service in Washington, Manhattan and London. When radio-news became...
Harvard undergraduates will shortly have their own radio station, equipped with microphone, wireless, and short-wave facilities...
...Golden Gate Hotel the fire spread rapidly to the business section on Front Street. Up went the offices of the Nome Nugget, up went the airplane office, saloons, poolrooms, garages, almost every business place in town. By nightfall every building in Nome was in ruins except the Government wireless station, which sent out the bad news, one hotel, a hospital and Lomen Commercial Co.'s north side warehouse. The winter food supply was entirely destroyed. That night the thermometer dropped...
...Officer George I. Alagna was awakened by a heavy trampling of feet. He noticed that it was 2:56 in the morning. Alagna heard someone scream: "We can't control the fire! The pressure's gone!" Then he awakened his chief, pudgy George W. Rogers, who went to the wireless room and took over from the second assistant. The room went dark as the ship's electric power failed. With a flashlight the radio men turned on the reserve battery current. "Sparks" Rogers then sent out his station call, KGVO. He next sent his QRT "Clear the air!'' Then...