Curtiss Candy Company is a now defunct confectionery
brand and a former company based in Chicago, Illinois. It
was founded in 1916 by Otto Schnering.
In 1964, Standard Brands purchased Curtiss Candy Company,
Standard Brands merged with Nabisco in 1981. In 1990, RJR
Nabisco sold the Curtiss brands to Nestlé.
Otto Young Schnering (1891 – 1953)
October 1958
Popular Mechanics is a magazine of popular science and
technology, featuring automotive, home, outdoor,
electronics, science, do-it-yourself, and technology
topics. Military topics, aviation and transportation of all
types, space, tools and gadgets are commonly featured.
It was founded in 1902 by Henry Haven Windsor, who was
the editor and, as owner of the Popular Mechanics Company,
the publisher.
For decades, the tagline of the monthly magazine was "Written
so you can understand it." In 1958, PM was purchased by the
Hearst Corporation, now Hearst Communications.
In 2013, the US edition changed from twelve to ten issues per
year, and in 2014 the tagline was changed to "How your world
works." The magazine added a podcast in recent years,
including regular features Most Useful Podcast Ever and How
Your World Works.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Henry Haven Windsor
(1859 – 1924)
Popular Mechanics first cover
(January 11, 1902).
The American Forces Network can trace its origins to 26 May 1942,
when the War Department established the Armed Forces Radio
Service (AFRS). A television service was first introduced in 1954
with a pilot station at Limestone Air Force Base, Maine. In 1954,
the television mission of AFRS was officially recognized and
AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) became AFRTS (Armed
Forces Radio and Television Service).
AFN-Japan’s radio services today consist of AM and FM stereo operations at Yokota Air Base (810 AM & cable FM), MCAS
Iwakuni (1575 AM), FLTACTS Sasebo (1575 AM), Okinawa
(648 AM & 89.1 FM) and Misawa Air Base (1575 AM).
AFN-Okinawa ceased over-the-air analog TV operations along
with all other Japanese TV stations on July 24, 2011.
All music was recorded on LP discs.
1960
AFRTS Okinawa Record library (1950s)
AFRTS Okinawa TV Master Control booth in 1964.
Pat Sajak, the host of TVs Wheel of Fortune
served in the U.S. Army as a disc jockey
during the Vietnam War for American
Forces Vietnam Network. He hosted the
same Dawn Buster radio show that Adrian
Cronauer had, and for 14 months, followed
Cronauer’s tradition of signing on with
"Good Morning Vietnam!"
On October 8, 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick
and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that killed
between 200 and 300 people, destroyed 17,450 buildings, left
100,000 homeless and caused an estimated $200 million
(in 1871 dollars; roughly $4 billion in 2021 dollars) in damages.
Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O’Leary barn
and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans or even
a comet may have been responsible for the event that left four
square miles of the Windy City, including its business district, in
ruins. Dry weather and an abundance of wooden buildings, streets
and sidewalks made Chicago vulnerable to fire.
