Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning another Ice cycle, 3) to judge the wisdom of a northerly airplane service between the U. S. & Europe. University of Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless, the five proceeded out of their snug shack, faced due south, and for the first time in two months watched a squint of sun beam briefly over the mountains...
...fool, War Lord Tang kept his whereabouts in Jehol a secret, last week, to avoid being bombed by Japanese planes. He used a portable wireless transmitter to give orders to his generals. For not selling out to Japan he was hailed as a hero in far distant teeming Chinese cities where heroism begins again, after centuries, to be fashionable...
...crusty Tories raised a cheer when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Captain Anthony Eden boomed that "His Majesty's Government would not hesitate, in case of necessity, to take all legitimate measures to protect its vital interests." In Teheran the arrival of Britain's words-via British Wireless News Agency-caused such official consternation that Persian newspapers were forbidden to print them and special couriers were rushed off to Reza Shah Pahlevi who was still in Mazanderan applauding superb Turkoman horseflesh and horsemanship...
...baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made a political issue of the "Marconi Scandal," raised...
...except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received by all but the returning athletes who were looking...