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Archive for: October, 2009

Chilling Radio Drama Stirs Ghost of Censorship November 1st, 1938

The radio industry viewed Monday a hobgoblin more terrifying to it than any Halloween spook. The prospect of increasing federal control of broadcasts was discussed here as an aftermath of a radio presentation of an H. G. Wells imaginative story which caused many listeners to believe that men from Mars had invaded the United States with death rays.

Roosevelt Rides in a Flying Machine October 12th, 1910

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt defied death this afternoon in going up in a flying machine while 10,000 people looked on. The ex-President made his initial air trip with Archie Hoxsey, an aviator for the Wright Brothers, and he was up in cloud land for exactly three minutes and twenty seconds, going over the heads of the scared throng.

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