Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While bachelors the world over mourned a lost shot at the British regency, the crowned heads of Cambridge assembled this morning in Adams House A-42, the residence of John Jay Hughes '48, to solemnize by wireless the marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten...
...story of her harum-scarum voyage, well and engagingly told, was first published in England in 1939, but smothered by the war along with other travel books by leisurely private adventurers. If armchair circumnavigators are now willing to knock about under sail without even wireless aboard, much less radar, the Cap Pilar is their craft...
Britain prepared to cinch its social revolution a little tighter. New Year's Day would be Vesting Day, so-called because on that day title to coal mines and the cable & wireless industry would be taken from private ownership and vested in the Government...
...book-sized wireless portable radio receiver through which a strolling listener, by a flick of a switch, can hear a speaker's words translated into any of four languages. Explanation: the speaker's words are radioed to translators, then the translations are rebroadcast on four different wave lengths...
...most newspaper readers Press Wireless Inc. was not even a name before last week. Yet most of the news that flows in & out of the U.S. moves via "PreWi" (rhymes with peewee), a highly mechanized common carrier that calls itself "copy boy for the press of the world." PreWi was organized by a syndicate of newspapers 17 years ago, in protest against the oldline cable companies, whose stiff rates and habit of sidetracking low-rate press dispatches had annoyed publishers in World War I. PreWi now also carries radio-photos and voice broadcasts, had a mobile station working from...