Word: stationing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote to you just before war began, since when life has been pretty hectic. I was mobilised with my Women's Auxiliary Fire Service on the 1st, and to my horror discovered all arrangements had been changed, and that we had to live at the Fire Station in the most vile discomfort. In fact things got so impossible we all resigned in a body, but improvements were promised and are actually in hand, so that I suppose gradually conditions will improve. The first night I slept on a table, but now on a camp bed & a sleeping...
...American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...
...selling military secrets and imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1937, when good behavior ended his five-year sentence and he exiled himself from Great Britain. The London Evening News stated positively last month that Baillie-Stewart was broadcasting propaganda in English from a German station...
...Luxembourg barred nonresidents from a triangle between Remich, Modorf and Schengen in her southeast corner. She shut down her big radio station, lest she be blamed for propaganda broadcast by others on its wave length, and banned the playing of radios and phonographs in public. On All Saints' Day, the Grand Ducal Army (1,000 men, plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform...
...networks generally restrict these serials to daytime hours, reserving the night air for classier stuff. Recently B-S-H tried to place transcriptions of some of its cheaper CBS and NBC serials, like Stella Dallas, Backstage Wife, etc. on small stations for night-time broadcasting. One prospect was Elliott Roosevelt's 24-station Texas State Network. But when Elliott and Blackett tried to get permission to take transcriptions of the shows off NBC and CBS wires, they got a royal runaround...