Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wireless Receiving Sets partly or wholly assembled
...Barbados for Baltimore. She was carrying a heavy cargo of Brazilian manganese, badly needed by U. S. steel plants making War munitions. She slipped over the Caribbean horizon and, though no enemy warship was thought to be in the vicinity, she never was heard from again, by wireless or otherwise. Searching craft found no trace of wreckage. Of the 293 people aboard, no body was ever recovered. Said Wartime Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his report that year: "There has been no more baffling mystery in the annals of the Navy...
...explorers need not be gamblers; Byrd caught the South Pole in a net of arithmetical detail. When the base-ship went back to warmer water, the camp on the ice-desert became a little city. You see the city live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic...
...registers itself on the screen as a moving speck. That speck, the pilot knows, represents his plane, which he may guide safely over trees, fences, hangars, just as they appear on the screen. Elaborate though the scheme sounded, skeptics forbore scoffing, recalling Inventor Hammond's previous exploits:wireless control of torpedoes and ships; the multiple message carrier wave for radio telegraphy. He is consulting engineer to Radio Corp. of America and General Electric...
Applause. As the Salt Lake City headed in for Old Point Comfort, her wireless crackled out: "The President wishes to congratulate the Commander-in-Chief, the officers and men of the Fleet on the smart and efficient manner in which the individual units performed their tasks...