Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of Act II, Producer Wiman suddenly tosses Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At the Roxy Music Hall...
When a person comes within two feet of any of the books the state of equilibrium is disturbed and a high frequency current is set up. This current produces a light signal which can be located in a janitor's office or in any other suitable room...
Therefore, with the Celler Bill hearings about to open in Washington this week, the QRX signal to stand by hummed through the U. S. radio industry. A more important fight than was ever put on the air-the match between the two great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have...
...army reserve corps at Chicago's Municipal Airport. One day last week Frank Krebs ran out onto the field, hopped up on the wing of an idling plane to have some routine papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung on by the edge of the rear cockpit for dear life. He thought...
Just as exterior streamlining has been made up of one part bunk to one part science, the interior "improvements" in these trains will cater largely to U. S. reverence for looks & luxury. Besides scientific lighting, air conditioning, electric signal systems, the Century and Broadway will have leather, cork, copper decorations, flossy bars, photomurals of skyscrapers, pink lights to transform dining cars into "night clubs." Passengers will call the porter not with bells, but with chimes...