Word: ac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furnace is simple-it is merely a transformer whose core (or "secondary") is replaced by the metal "charge" to be heated. The coiled wires surrounding the charge carry alternating current, usually of high frequency-changing the direction of its flow not 60 times a second (as in ordinary household AC) but several thousand times a second. As the secondary current induced in the metal charge stabs back & forth, the metal's resistance creates great heat. A small box-shaped furnace (using 600 kilowatts) will melt a ton of steel an hour all day long-a rate of production much...
...attacked joint British-U. S. hopes: "They say Italy will fall away. . . . They have viewed German-Italian relations ac cording to their own standards. When one democracy helps another it demands some thing - military bases or something that it then retains. ... Il Duce and I are neither Jews nor opportunists. When we shake hands it is the handshake of men of honor...
...sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...
...Japan (biggest are Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Congrega-tionalist), with some 700 U. S. missiona ries. But Japanese Protestants met twice last week to organize the Genuine Japan Christian Church, favored the severance of every foreign tie, fusion of all sects, Japanese supervision for all Christian ac tivity in occupied parts of China. Slated for head of the new united church was Bishop Yoshimune Abe, who rules Japan's Methodists. The Japanese Methodist Church formerly elected bishops for a four-year term. Last October, when Bishop Abe was chosen, the Japanese Government stipulated that he should hold...
...suburbs of Tilbury, North-fleet, Enfield, Barking, Purfleet, killed and maimed an unannounced number of civilians, did small military damage. Captive balloons and a terrific anti-aircraft barrage walled them away from London's heart. German observers in reconnaissance planes gave the world a running radio ac count of this exploit. They exaggerated enormously. Excerpts...