Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials of RCA Communications contended that if the Commission withdrew its 113 point-to-point licenses, they would be gobbled up by foreign countries "like Russia and Mexico" and the U. S. would be virtually forced out of the international wireless field. Jeopardy to life at sea was depicted by Radiomarine officials if that company should lose its 1,122 ship-shore licenses because of its parent company's law violation. RCA-Victor declared it would have to cease television experimentation if the Commission ruled against it. Summing up for RCA, Louis Titus, chief attorney, declared an "unspeakable disaster" would...
...been smooth and uneventful. Then unexpectedly the batteries began to fail. Next the starboard engine failed completely. On one engine, the Nautilus grunted through quiet seas at 8 knots. A gale came up. All night the crippled submarine fought the waves. By morning Sir Hubert decided he had better wireless for help. The U. S. S. Wyoming and Arkansas turned to rescue. The Shipping Board tanker Independence Hall was close to the Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming...
...second floor will house the photographic and aerial survey departments an exploratory room, and record room. A large chamber will be devoted to wireless research and transmitting, and on each end of the building will be a long room, one an oak paneled library, the other a place to be used as, a map room. Other maps will be housed in the special penthouse for charts. The rest of the roof will have a stone balustrade and will be open for observations. In the basement will be two floors for book-stacks for the housing of the 80,000 books...
...Holiness, fell to his knees, kissed the papal ring. The Pope was smiling, showed traces of excitement. The Mar chese Marconi and entourage entered the small building over a thick red-and-blue carpet. Whimsically His Holiness threw in switches which set electrical devices in motion; he tapped a wireless key, punched a teletypewriter's keys, proceeded to the transmitting room where from a throne he spoke to All Creation...
...December 1923, with a crew of 50, the Dixmude left her base at Cuers-Pierrefou for a 72-hour flight over North Africa. On the third day, near Biskra, a storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after...