For his wartime work on radio the French government gave him the Legion of Honor in 1919.

The wartime takeover of all radio systems ended late in 1918, when the US Congress failed to pass a bill which would have extended this monopoly.

World War II was unkind to Radio Row, and in 1944 the Times lamented that the " one-time repository of nearly everything from a tube socket to a complete radio station " was " bargainless and practically setless, too, due to wartime scarcities " but that it still catered to " tinkerers and engineers " and that an " old spirit " and " magical quality " were still there.

* 1945 – Iva Toguri D ' Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

Ultra was the designation adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park.

In April 1921, speaking before a special joint session of Congress which he had called, Harding argued for peacemaking with Germany and Austria, emergency tariffs, new immigration laws, regulation of radio and trans cable communications, retrenchment in government, tax reduction, repeal of wartime excess profits tax, reduction of railroad rates, promotion of agricultural interests, a national budget system, an enlarged merchant marine and a department of public welfare.

He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.

** Iva Toguri D ' Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist " Tokyo Rose ", is arrested in Yokohama.

Bevan opposed the heavy censorship imposed on radio and newspapers and wartime Defence Regulation 18B, which gave the Home Secretary the powers to intern citizens without trial.

His speech, broadcast by radio on 22 June, characterised the Soviet Union in a role similar to that articulated for Britain by Winston Churchill in his early wartime speeches.

Activities used in EW include: electro-optical, infrared and radio frequency countermeasures ; EM compatibility and deception ; EM hardening, interference, intrusion, and jamming ; electronic masking, probing, reconnaissance, and intelligence ; electronics security ; EW reprogramming ; emission control ; spectrum management ; and wartime reserve modes.

* October 1 – The U. S. War Production Board lifts its wartime ban on the manufacture of radio and television equipment for consumer use.

Slinky has seen uses other than as a toy in the playroom: it has appeared in the classroom as a teaching tool, in wartime as a radio antenna, and in physics experiments with NASA.

Later, in the 1970s, he echoed his wartime role by appearing as the newsreader in the radio version of Dad's Army, setting the scene at the beginning of every episode.

Although it was completed on October 28, 1942 and its completion was celebrated at Soldier's Summit on November 21 ( and broadcast by radio, the exact outdoor temperature censored due to wartime concerns ), the " highway " was not usable by general vehicles until 1943.

Priestley's wartime BBC radio " chats " described the beauty of the English natural environment, this at a time when rationing was at its height, and the population of London was sheltering from the Blitz in its Underground stations.

The radio operator, Dennis Harmer, also had a record of wartime as well as civilian service.

Pushed both by wartime demands and by the growing commercialization of radio, equipment rapidly improved.

Another claimed derivation is from Plymouth's wartime radio callsign which was GUZZ.

wartime radio expert Joe Pawsey was the sort of father of radio astronomy in Australia.

Winston Churchill, the British wartime Prime Minister, made an outspoken attack on the Irish Government and in particular Éamon de Valera in his radio broadcast on VE Day.

Many of the comedians from music hall and wartime gang shows worked on the post-war radio, and characters such as Julian and Sandy on Round the Horne used innuendo extensively in their acts.

There was no opera staged in wartime Britain so he made a living by singing, conducting and making gramophone records and radio broadcasts.

Veteran wartime BBC radio announcers Alvar Lidell and John Snagge gave their services free to voice reconstructed newsreels and radio broadcasts.

The programme took a nostalgic look at compulsory national service, which operated in Britain from the wartime years until the beginning of the 1960s.

One of the outcomes of the wartime airfield construction programme was the building of Nutts Corner Airport, just from Aldergrove.

It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army.

The programme was named after Ernest Bevin, a former trade union official and then British Labour Party politician who was Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government.

He is most famous for his appearance on The Brains Trust, an extremely popular BBC Radio wartime discussion programme.

Sure enough, in January 1940, Joad was selected for a wartime discussion programme called The Brains Trust.

A major conversion ( Rekonstruction ) programme to update steam locomotives and rectify flawed, mainly wartime austerity, classes was carried out in the 1950s.

98 VICs were built for the ministry of war transport between 1941 and 1945 ; part of the enormous Government wartime shipbuilding programme.

In 1942 the wartime Secretary of State for Scotland, Thomas Johnston, asked Fraser Darling if he would run an agricultural advisory programme in the crofting areas of the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Walton, after a wartime stint with Time-Life, to become bureau chief for The New Republic.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

The first, published in 1935, deals primarily with food ( and to a lesser extent with raw material ) supplies in wartime.

After decades of neglect and damage from wartime, Cambodia's rail network is currently being reconstructed as part of the Trans-Asian Railway project with modern trains replacing the current open-access system of " bamboo trains ", homemade bamboo mats powered by go-kart or water pump engines.

1946 saw Cessna return to commercial production after the revocation of wartime production restrictions ( L-48 ) with the release of the Model 120 and Model 140.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and then only under exceptional circumstances, with the express approval of the President in each case.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and only then under exceptional circumstances with the express approval of the President in each case.

The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), Went the Day Well?

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

The term " fantasy " became a central issue with the development of the Kleinian group as a distinctive strand within the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and was at the heart of the so-called Controversial discussions of the wartime years.

Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender, a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, raising West Germany from total wartime devastation to one of the most developed nations in modern Europe.

In the film, Barthelmess and Fairbanks play two Royal Flying Corps pilots during World War I who deal with the pressure of wartime combat and constant death by drinking and fighting with their commanding officer.

The publisher and wartime resistance fighter Raymond Leblanc provided the financial support and anti-Nazi credentials to launch the comics magazine titled Tintin with Hergé.

Sixty seats were provided free of charge to service personnel ; the remaining were sold to the public, with the box office proceeds donated to wartime charities.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

The social and economic connotations of KAR service, combined with the massive wartime expansion of Kenyan defense forces, created a new class of modernized Africans with distinctive characteristics and interests.