On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!

This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.

The radar station with the best location was still not serviceable.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

W7ASU is an amateur radio station that was first organized in 1935.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

At station nine, an area known as the " Vacant Lot ", which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, Young and Duke spent about forty minutes gathering samples.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited — an enterprise formed by a group of land developers — and ran from Box Hill railway station along what is now Station Street and Tram Road to Doncaster, using equipment left over from the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 at the Royal Exhibition Building.

Harold Wood formed a ward in the ancient parish of Hornchurch, although the area now around the station was in the North End ward.

The cattle station was formed from several leases originally granted in the 1870s.

In 1853, the newly formed Memphis and Charleston Railroad ( a stretch of railroad that starts at Memphis, TN, and ends in Charleston, SC ) decided to build a station at Scottsboro and did so in 1857.

Other establishments in State Line include the Kent Township Fire Department, formed in 1978, which took over local fire protection responsibilities from the West Lebanon Fire Department ; in 2000, however, the department merged back with West Lebanon, which now maintains the State Line fire station.

The town of Odenton, nicknamed " The Town a Railroad Built " by Catherine L. O ' Malley, was formed in 1868 with the construction of the Baltimore Potomac ( B & P ) Railroad connecting Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Where the B & P crossed the A & ER, a train station and telegraph office were constructed and named for Oden Bowie, President of the B & P and former governor of Maryland.

* Petrel was a former post office and station on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway at, formed as a lumber settlement around the C. H. Worcester Company operations.

What is now Emerson was originally formed on April 8, 1903, from portions of Washington Township as the Borough of Etna, the name of a railroad station in the community.

Since being formed in 1964 and purchasing its first fire truck a year later, the Seaville company has served the area, responding to over 200 calls a year from its fire station is located on Route 50 across from Dino's Seaville Diner.

The railroad then named the station for Edmond Burdick, the Santa Fe ’ s traveling freight agent ; when the town was formed after the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, early settlers decided to adopt the name.

On April 27, 1898, two days after Spain declared war, the various companies that formed the regiment ( including Plymouth's Company I ) met at the Wilkes-Barre armory and marched to the Lehigh Valley railroad station.

The North Charleston Fire Department was formed in 1937 with only one station and one engine.

An angry mob formed and burned the station to the ground, resulting in somewhere between six and twenty deaths.

The railway station which served this site later formed the basis of Oldham Werneth railway station, which together with the main building exists to this day.

By 1964, Jack Douglas, a local DJ at WNIL radio station in Niles, formed his own record label, Snap Records.

HFM on 102. 3FM was formed in November 1994 to provide a local FM station for Market Harborough and South Leicestershire, as it was felt the established local independent and BBC stations did not cater for the area.

The station was renamed London Road in 1847, around the time the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, which became the Great Central Railway, was formed.

The Control Office regulates train running, giving permission for trains to enter the single line sections, recording train movements on the Train Graph, ensuring trains are formed of an appropriate number of carriages ( depending on the expected train loadings ), acting as the single point of contact in the rare event of a failure occurring with rolling stock, and making station announcements at Porthmadog

Clear Channel Communications, a San Antonio, Texas-based company which owns over 900 U. S. radio stations, was originally formed to purchase one clear-channel station, WOAI.

In 1936, the newly formed Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, established to function as both broadcaster and broadcasting regulator ( taking over the latter function from previous regulator the Department of Marine and Fisheries ), asked CKCD to relinquish its licence, and the station signed off for the last time in February 1940.

This, along with the ' hide away ' place on the UHF dial formed the basis of fictional station " CIVIC TV " ( Channel 83 Cable 12 ) in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, which is set in Toronto.

The station was designed by NNC, a company created from the gradual amalgamation of five consortia that were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to build the UK's commercial nuclear power stations.

TVS's identity featured a six coloured symbol that formed up in three stages from the outside in before panning out and sitting alongside the TVS lettering, accompanied by a shortened version of the station theme New Forest Rondo.