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...Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast in an unusual manner. The waves do not leave the station via an aerial strung outside the transmitting building, but follow wires strung along the tracks, When they reach a point opposite the speeding train, the waves 'jump' to the aerial of the receiving set on the roof of the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...foreign consular officials at Manila-most of them semi-professional-from clearing diplomatic affairs through his Malancañan Palace. Last fortnight Commissioner McNutt advised these gentlemen that the U. S. was still responsible for the Philippines' foreign relations, that all communication with the Commonwealth should be routed via his office. Particularly irked was he that The Netherlands vice consul had recently been replaced without notification to the Commissioner's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Toast Trouble | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...this is also inaccurate. The hopper cars are run out on the dock a few at a time, and the ore dumped into the pockets by opening the hopper bottoms of the cars. The ore goes, whenever a freighter is ready for it, from the pockets into the hold via steel spouts hinged to the sides of the dock. Cardumpers such as you mention are, however, used to load coal into these same freighters at lower lake ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...floor show under the direction of "Stuff" Smith from the Onyx Club in New York, the Lowell affair has the added attraction of Rudolf Friml's orchestra broadcasting over a coast-to-coast hook-up. Yours and your partner's feet will shuffle over the national air waves via N.B.C. from 12:30 to 1 o'clock if you attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

...looks like Look.* Dell Publishing Co.'s feeler into the picture magazine field, Foto is billed as "the Candid Camera Magazine," launched as a 10? bimonthly. If successful, it will supplement Dell's lucrative Modern Screen, Radio Stars and Ballyhoo. Editor West F. Peterson, out of Illinois via the University of Wisconsin and its Daily Cardinal, ordered a press run of 400,000 for Foto's, first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York sneak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Little One, Big Ones | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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