Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Placed at the radio centre of the U. S. amid good atmospheric conditions and well removed from high tension power lines, this station will serve the Department of Commerce as a monitor of the air, capable of bringing in the most distant high-frequency broadcasts throughout the world. Scheduled date of operation: Nov. 15. Purpose: to check up the licensed wavelengths of the 20,000 wireless, broadcasting and television transmitters in the U. S.,* to keep them in their proper communication lanes, prevent "jaycasting." The cost...
...agents in scout cars equipped with less delicate testing instruments have rechecked Grand Island's report in the local territory. By paying for the long distance call, any broadcaster in the land can telephone Grand Island, have his station's frequency corrected free in three minutes. Incidentally the monitor station will help spot and uproot unlicensed wireless outfits such as U. S. agents last summer found rum-runners to be secretly operating from summer mansions on Long Island...
...training table this year is made up of 31 players and the manager, John H. Reno of Macomb, Ill, Captain Andres, of Newton, is responsible for all conduct in the room at meal hours. To assist him in his duties be has appointed "Chucker" Crehan, Roxbury right tackle, as monitor. When the fellows feel gay sometimes and are seized with an urge to throw potato skins or pieces of bread from one table, to another, the stern voice of "Chuck" can be heard above the rest; "Sorry fellows, but I'm monitor" and the firing ceases...
...Heiress, Bloomfield drygoods merchant, is generally given credit for thinking up the plan. He organized and became president of the Bloomfield Retail Merchants Association. During his regime the Bloomfield Monitor of Feb. 23, 1928 carried a memorable proclamation by the merchants: No more retail credit would be given in Bloomfield after April 1. Any member of the Association caught extending credit would be fined $100. Twenty-two Bloomfield businesses backed the scheme...
...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...