Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1943 the U.S. freighter Volunteer, crammed with explosives, lay at anchor in Halifax Harbor. Suddenly she caught fire. If she blew up, she would probably blow up a good deal of Halifax too. At first her crew fought the flames with extinguishers, finally broke wireless silence to flash an S O S. The Navy's harbor master, Commander (now Captain) Owen Robertson, rushed aboard with a special crew. But still the fire gained...
...Shanghai apartment had green walls, ceilings spangled with stars and crescent moons, silver-gilt furniture, 60 satin cushions. Gibbons were her favorite pets. Dressed in diapers, they swung from the bars of a bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said fretfully, "but chant. . . ."), an Australian brunette named Jean...
Tesla concentrated on larger projects. The most grandiose: a scheme for the wireless transmission of electric power. He proposed to charge the earth with tremendous voltages and make it "oscillate," thereby making it possible to tap electricity from any part of the globe. At his famed electrical tower in Colorado, Tesla produced a potential of 135,000,000 volts (still the highest ever achieved) and claimed that he lit 200 incandescent bulbs 26 miles away with wireless power...
...Most of the big generals and admirals are sports minded, MacArthur, Halsey and the others." Commenting on short-wave broadcasts of important athletic events. Don said, "I can't remember ever hearing one. The only way men on board ship get spirts dope is in the morning when the wireless operation pick up news and type it out. Of course you might have a few radios on some ships...
...relations director nicknamed for his 105-mm. larynx and famed for his bravery under fire. Almost immediately, the 500-odd grumbling Allied newsmen, based in the disheveled Hotel Scribe, saw things change for the better. By last week the milling throng was gone from the Scribe lobby ; censors, P.R.O.s, wireless men were settled and working in designated rooms; correspondents were eating regularly. Most heartening change of all, Press Wireless stepped up its power, and copy dispatched from Paris reached a total of over 1,000,000 words...