Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domes gave Angelenos at least a hint of its namesake in Istanbul* The new church is a striking mixture of Eastern and Western ideas. It combines Byzantine-style altar screens and air conditioning, painted icons and an ultra-modern public-address system. The architects have even thought of adding wireless hand microphones for clerics to use in church processions...
...Rose Mary, bound for Italy, neared the British colonial port of Aden, a strange battle took place on board between two crackling wireless receivers. Over one radio, Shipowner Nicolo Rizzi from Italy ordered Captain Giuseppe Jafrate to put in at Aden. Over the other, Italian Count Ettore della Zonca, who had chartered the ship, exhorted: "Go ahead! The world is watching...
...There's as complete a token of surrender as ever I saw," chuckles Bob as the petticoat is hoisted aloft, Later, aboard the Navy ship, he is again the newspaper-man; his first thought is for a wireless. "I'll see you later," he says suggestively to Rita, "at dinner. We can . . . talk...
...licensed radio operator with a white friend for the greatly needed post of radio operator in the Navy. He was told that "the Navy doesn't make any provisions for colored men-except as messmen." John Dunn spent the war as a reservist while his friend served as a wireless operator...
...Society's first accomplishments-- a ship-to-shore broadcast of the Eastern Sprints regatta in 1948--has now been extended to all crew races. The equipment, however, is somewhat modernized: while four years the Society made the broadcast a walkie-talkie set-up, this Spring Nelson says that the Wireless Club plans to loan its equipment...