Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herr Ribbentrop speeding toward the Italian frontier a wireless operator handed a communique just issued by the British Foreign Office. It read: "The British Government has decided to release 13 ships detained in recent days together with their cargoes of coal. Italian ships which have not already started their return journey with cargoes of coal will leave the ports in which they are at present in ballast (unladen) and no further Italian cargo steamers will be sent subsequently to those ports to load coal." Later came reports that British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bastianini...
Recently British authorities in Hong Kong smelled out and raided an illicit wireless station which had been sending messages in code over a magnificently complete, exceedingly expensive transmitter. Six young men were arrested, arraigned, fined $16,000. Court records did not list the name of Prince David; but last week British authorities admitted unofficially that David Kung had been politely but firmly asked to leave Hong Kong just after the raid. He went briefly to Manila, then disappeared. Confucius really did say: "While one's parents are alive, one should not travel to a distance; if one must travel...
...cutters, Duane and Bibbo, to permanent weather outposts on the Atlantic. At points one-third and two-thirds of the way between Bermuda and the Azores they will station, send up balloons with instruments to measure pressure, humidity and temperature, keep a constant, weather-wise eye on the sea, wireless their reports back to Washington...
...Explosion followed explosion. A lubricating line cracked and the oil caught. Panicked oilers tried to climb above decks, but the leaping flames caught them like crickets in a grass fire. Some one notified Radio Operator Filippo Perrona. He began tapping SOS. But within four minutes fire had reached the wireless room, in the topmost superstructure...
Instead he enclosed a card with a message of his own: "I had to open this letter as it is my duty. I am also somewhere in France. We have no more real concerts, and our only pleasure is to hear the records on the wireless. It is not necessary to say that yours are the ones I prefer...