Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ashore, the Coldwater's wireless message caused mystification. From nowhere along the coast had a trans-Atlantic flight attempt been reported. Sometimes Navy flyers go far to sea from Hampton Roads, but not on dirty nights, and no Navy flyers were missing. No weather bureau had been asked for trans-Atlantic weather reports, or even for the weather between the U. S. and Bermuda (a flight which has never been made from west to east...
...event that started the dream was a great communications merger in England, the formation of Cables & Wireless Ltd., the stock of which was traded in for the first time last month. Into that merger the British poured four great cable systems (including one government-owned), the government beam wireless system and the great British Marconi Co. The merger has a huge liquid capital. It owns cable and wireless systems which girdle the globe...
...Germany's Constitution Day. Berlin authorities pleaded by wireless for Commander Eckener to have the Graf Zeppelin salute their city as it did Manhattan and Paris. But the day was also Commander Eckener's 61st birthday and he wished to celebrate it at home. So directly to Friedrichshafen he took his airship...
...Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike Meehan is famed as specialist in Radio Corp. stock...
...formation, was many a news organ. Representatives of the Gannett chainpapers attended the organization meetings at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, later declined to participate. "Such a company will not give the service we want," said one of them. Moved to court action was the Hearst-owned Universal Service Wireless, Inc., organized last year following the Commission's first allocation order. Last week it filed notice of appeal in Washington's Court of Appeals asking that the Commission be enjoined from allocating the wavelengths to the new corporation, that the new corporation be enjoined from erecting its transmitting stations. Universal...