Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Universal Air. Radio technology may very quickly alter this. Press Wireless, Inc. transmitted 600 photographs over its radiophoto circuits to Berne,Moscow and Chungking last January; OWI men in the field are now using portable radiophoto transmitters. The development of high-frequency transmission will mean a local broadcast band of nearer to 500,000 kilocycles than the present 15,000. The arrival of television and television
...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
...fundamental responsibility of labor in all countries, and we of the C.I.O. are dedicated to that goal. . . . Having made this clear, let me make equally plain that we do not view this program for common action as a one-way partnership. We recognize that the execution of Alter and Ehrlich has been a grave blow to our vision of world labor unity...
...least one former B School cadet in the person of "Commodore" Perry will be alter-bound immediately following receipt of his commission sometime the latter part...
...beliefs and doctrines. The South would appear as rough terrain, unshaped and untilled; the North as chaotic, volcanic land, constantly changing, never settled. Yet our mapmakers deceive us with their shiny flat charts of common ideals, freedom for all, malice towards none. They make war on those who would alter this idealistic map and make speeches against those who might threaten their imaginative portraits. But in all their speeches and in all their wars, they have forgotten the real land. Evidently, they have never surveyed the nation...