Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decks, droned ahead to find the "enemy." They returned to report; the patterns were changed. Certain formations meant probable success, others probable disaster. Smoke billowed from funnels, gigantic guns stirred in their turrets, officers peered through their binoculars, made marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent curious wireless messages. But always the heaving ships cut new furrows, new foamy patterns. This was the mathematics of conflict, the grim, immediate study of warfare by men trained to stand on vibrating decks, coolly directing sea-born Waterloos amid a holocaust of explosions...
...contained many a bombshell. It allotted no additional channels to Radio Corp. of America or to the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Corp. but directed those two most potent applicants to appear for further hearings. Even more surprising was the allocation of 40 channels to the comparatively obscure Universal Wireless Communication...
...last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...
...only as a competitor of Radio Corp. and Mackay Co. did Universal Wireless make its dramatic appearance. Such established systems as Western Union and Postal Telegraph must watch this rising communications company. Said Dr. John Nathonsohn, Manhattan representative of Universal Wireless, naively: "We are not proposing to undercut the wire companies. But we intend to offer a 12-word message instead of a 10-word one at the same rate now being charged for the shorter one by the telegraph companies...
...While wireless companies prepared to compete with land lines, the chief U. S. telegraph company made ready for a record-breaking year. Announced by Western Union Telegraph Co., last week, was an appropriation of $29,000,000 for improvements, replacements, new construction...