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...coast of Alaska, June 20 or shortly after for an airplane flight across the North Pole to Spitzbergen. In order to notify watchers and emergency rescue parties in Spitzbergen the news of his departure will be flashed thither by radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will light the fire when they see the preceding beacon, and run on between stations to make sure the signal...
With a new watt tube transmitting set installed, progress at the University station has been very satisfactory. Within the present week, the station has communicated with other experimental stations as far west as Minnesota and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. A considerable number of messages are being handled every night, both from and to the University, as well as relayed messages. From 7 o'clock, until 10 o'clock every evening the receiving set can be used for broadcast reception...
...station is still short of operators and the officers are very anxious that any members of the University holding licenses, who would like to operate the set send their names to the secretary, N. K. Fairbank, 13 Claverly Hall, as soon as possible. Men not holding licenses are not allowed to use the transmitting apparatus but, by becoming members of the club, may operate the receiving...
...rents of Rome-where Cardinals now find difficulty in maintain- ing lodgings which befit their station...
...radio station on Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, in the conscientious performance of its duty by the concerts...