Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew that any wireless message sent from Fiji would be intercepted by the German warships, so I gave instructions for the following words to be wirelessed in English to H. M. S. Australia, flagship of the Australian fleet: THANKS FOR MESSAGE. SHALL EXPECT YOU EARLY TOMORROW...
Though he arrived third class, Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was not meanly dressed (see cut). He carried a cane and two pairs of gloves. "The Emperor and I are pals," he said, "and if you reporters doubt the logicability of that I will pay for a wireless to His Majesty...
...from high tension power lines, this station will serve the Department of Commerce as a monitor of the air, capable of bringing in the most distant high-frequency broadcasts throughout the world. Scheduled date of operation: Nov. 15. Purpose: to check up the licensed wavelengths of the 20,000 wireless, broadcasting and television transmitters in the U. S.,* to keep them in their proper communication lanes, prevent "jaycasting." The cost...
...means of an instrument so sensitive as to register a variation of one-one-millionth in an assigned wave length a 1,000 mi. away, the staff of ten at Grand Island will check between 300 and 400 wireless and broadcasting stations during a 24-hour working day. Not only will the wave wobbling of U. S. stations be detected but those in Canada and Mexico will be watched to see they do not creep out of the channels allotted them by international agreements. Entertainment programs will be brought in to evaluate their public worth, though no censorship will...
...delicate testing instruments have rechecked Grand Island's report in the local territory. By paying for the long distance call, any broadcaster in the land can telephone Grand Island, have his station's frequency corrected free in three minutes. Incidentally the monitor station will help spot and uproot unlicensed wireless outfits such as U. S. agents last summer found rum-runners to be secretly operating from summer mansions on Long Island...