Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...liberty" are the brain children of a wealthy and civic-minded Kansas City manufacturer named Jack P. Whitaker. He was first struck with the idea when a patriotic citizen of Spirit Lake, Iowa (pop. 2,161) put up a Statue of Liberty constructed of concrete and chicken wire. It wasn't much of a job, but 3,500 people attended the dedication...
Among topics that Hall will discuss are the techniques of the American agitator, the strength and make-up of racist organizations, and how these groups employ propaganda weapons. He will augment his talk with wire-recordings made at various demonstrations and will exhibit samples of anti-democratic literature...
...picked up by an editorial writer over a convivial round with Dimmick. Next day, after thinking it over, Dimmick decided that he had been "misquoted." He had not seen the wrecked saucer or its pilot himself; it was two other guys in Mexico City. Nevertheless, distributed deadpan by the wire services and printed in many newspapers, the Dimmick "little man" story, and variations of it, are still making the rounds. Why is the press ready to print, and the public to believe, such fantastic tales? Said Admiral Gallery last week: "If you'll look back about 500 years...
...some colorful pageantry; three Gilbert & Sullivan types named Ping, Pang anu Pong, the emperor's ministers, did their best to give the opera some comic relief; and Soprano Martinis sang her stony and stolid role with a voice that was as strong, hard and cold as a wire cable. The chill was hardly her fault: singing her first Turandot, she found the part "so cold-really musicless...
...hams must be content to broadcast at a maximum power of 150-watts, generally on the 10-meter band. This band requires only a 16-foot antenna, the size most easily erected by the Buildings and Grounds Department (cost, $15 for installation). There's only one trouble: every nearby wire about 16-feet long is "sympathetic" to this band, and puts out a signal which can be picked up over phonographs, and radio and TV sets. Maximum operation at other frequencies calls for longer aerials and more amperage than the University wiring Circuits supply. Under these circumstances, good "long calls...