Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Percy and his aides then send wireless orders to the ships at sea. In the case of convoys, they signal the naval escort, which consists in most cases of two destroyers, with here and there a corvette thrown in, trying to protect 20 to 60 vessels in the convoy...
...most stupendous experiment on the air waves since G. Marconi first sent out his sputtering messages over a wireless will take place tonight at 5:30 o'clock over the CRIMSON Network according to Nelson R. Gidding '41, creator of the experiment...
...bridge was ruined, the compasses, steering gear, charts and wireless gone. The only alternate steering gear aft was nearly wrecked. Only four spokes were left in the wheel. And the flames gained more headway every minute. Then the lifeboat broke away, left them stranded...
...game. The Turakina went down about twilight, bathed in flames, but not until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members, six men and seven women out of 100 passengers...
...wireless or I will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer...