Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven brine-stained Liberty ships steamed eastward across the Pacific toward the U.S. They were carrying home the same Army cargoes they had been taking to the Philippines; the Army decided it had enough there already. Last week, in mid-Pacific, the wireless sang out another order: turn west again and set a course for Shanghai...
...cable and radio scheme, which involves absorption of the vast, monopolistic system of Cable & Wireless Ltd., should have surprised no one. The Dominions, which favor state-owned systems, had repeatedly urged Britain to adopt such a plan. But the proposal to nationalize civil aviation was new, and it was Labor's own baby...
...what the American people may read and what they may not read about activities of troops in China." An Army PRO refused to transmit the message. But since the officer had lost his censorship powers, Bob Patterson could read the message in the newspapers, which received it by Press Wireless. Apparently, the message was also read by Lieut. General George Stratemeyer, acting commander of the China Theater, for at week's end the deadline was extended...
Detroit's WWJ was born August 20, 1920. Broadcasting was then mostly stutter and static, and reception was mostly a matter of cat's whiskers and crystals. When the station was just eleven days old, its listeners were invited to hold "wireless parties" in their homes, to hear the first U.S. broadcast of election returns. A month later, WWJ (then called 8MK) aired radio's first vocal program, a soprano singing The Last Rose of Summer...
Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible...