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.

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.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

The 20-to-1 ratio for cochannel interference embodies one of the fundamental limiting principles which we must always take into account in AM assignments and allocations -- that signals from a particular station are potential sources of objectionable interference over an area much greater than that within which they provide useful service.

Futhermore, the station which wants real prestige must lead or participate in community improvement projects, not simply serve on the air.

Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; ;

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.

The Alcotts hosted a steady stream of visitors at The Hillside, including fugitive slaves, which they hosted in secret as a station of the Underground Railroad.

Apollo / Saturn vehicles were also used for an Apollo Applications program which consisted of three Skylab space station missions in 1973 – 74.

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.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

This was further solidified by Bahá ’ u ’ lláh ’ s tablet of the Branch in which he constantly exalts his son's virtues and station.

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

At the end of July 2000, the government-owned Botswana Television ( BTV ) was launched, which is Botswana's first national television station.

* Bay platform, a dead-end platform at a railway station which has through lines

Without a television station to subsidize the newspaper, the Herald Traveler was no longer able to remain in business, and the newspaper was sold to Hearst Corporation, which published the rival all-day newspaper, the Record American.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Bodmin is the home of NCB Radio, an Internet radio station which aims to bring a dedicated station to North Cornwall.

Cross ownership also refers to a type of media ownership in which one type of communications ( say a newspaper ) owns or is the sister company of another type of medium ( such as a radio or TV station ).

As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

Minivans are typically either two-box or one box designs for maximum interior volume – and are taller than a sedan, hatchback, or a station wagon.

A number of NASA centers studied various space station designs in the early 1960s.

First generation stations such as Salyut 1 and Skylab had monolithic designs, consisting of one module with no resupply capability, whilst the second generation stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 comprised a monolithic station with two ports to allow consumables to be replenished by cargo spacecraft such as Progress.

The wooden B & ER station was known locally as " The Cowshed "; but a grand headquarters was built at street level on the west side of its station in 1852-54 to the Jacobean designs of Samuel Fripp.

Historic fire station with Amish designs on doors

In 2001-2002, as part of preparations for the 2002 Commonwealth Games the remainder of the station was rebuilt, to designs by BDP, increasing the size of the concourse and improving road access.

The station frontages on Kingsway and High Holborn were partially reconstructed to modernist designs by Charles Holden.

Portable and fixed station designs each have distinct pros and cons depending on the location of use, number of system users, and the quantity of filled water balloons needed.

It is the new DAB + implementation which will be under consideration for new station designs and not the earlier DAB scheme using the MUSICAM CODEC.

His station designs for London Underground became the corporation's standard design influencing designs by all architects working for the organisation in the 1930s.

Rita, an existing rollercoaster, was also altered, with new station and train designs to look ' engulfed ' by the supernatural forest.

Depending on train station platform heights, three designs can be used for entry-high platforms require use of a " split level " car design, where the doors are located on a middle level, with access into the upper or lower level branching off-with stairs or ramps going both up and down ( sometimes this configuration includes a section of seating at the middle level in the entry section, with double levels only in part of the lengths of the car ).

alt = Steam locomotive with three different designs of carriage, at a railway station

It featured a tall glazed screen with Underground roundel similar to his station designs for the extension to Morden of the City & South London Railway ( now the Northern Line ) opened between 1924 and 1926.

At his death, he was working on designs for a fountain commissioned by the city of Winterthur in 1991, Switzerland, and a new glass facade for a railroad station in Basel, Switzerland.

The use of David Mocatta's modular station designs for the Brighton main line, was not perpetuated by the LB & SCR.

In April 2006, Transport Minister John Watkins announced plans for a $ 2 million inquiry into concept designs for upgrading the station.

* July 19-Sudbury Town station on the London Underground Piccadilly line opens as rebuilt by Charles Holden, the first of his iconic modern designs for the network.

The predominant style of the buildings in the shopping strip, station and surrounding homes are Federation and Interwar which include many magnificent examples of single story Art Deco designs.

Gare d ' Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard ; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans ( Paris-Orléans Railway ).

New station buildings, to designs by Acanthus Lawrence and Wrightson Architects, have now replaced the old ones.

The station is similar to Holden's slightly earlier designs for Sudbury Town and Acton Town stations at the western end of Piccadilly Line.