Word: bombarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knew Too Much (Gaumont British) follows the formula of old Hollywood gangster pictures in its climactic scene which shows London's Wapping transformed into a shambles when the police bombard a gang of anarchists in their hideaway. Nonetheless, the picture can by no means be pigeonholed as a feeble foreign imitation of the films which many cinemaddicts found among the most satisfactory ever made in the U. S. Alfred Hitchcock's direction, in which the story is told in sharp, abbreviated sequences gathering speed steadily toward their explosive climax, makes The Man Who Knew Too Much...
...Majesty's Government do not choose to allow advertising to be broadcast from any station in Great Britain, their firm stand creates a facile opportunity. Some smart pioneer could sign up a string of small Spanish, French and other European stations, put on attractive programs in English, bombard the Islands with advertisements...
President Plugge's latest addition to I. B. C. is the Yankee Network. Boston station WNAC and Providence station WEAN now bombard the British Isles with short wave advertisements, try to wean His Majesty's subjects from their favorite liver pills to others. The pill now chiefly plugged by President Plugge was announced before the holidays cheerily thus : "You must be ready for Christmas! Begin taking Bile Beans right away...
...have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units of radiation, or both, with energies of billions of electron volts, energies beyond the power of any man-made device to reproduce. They bombard Earth continually from all directions. The most powerful can penetrate 3,200 ft. of water or 290 ft. of lead. Estimate: 30 cosmic rays pass through every human body every second. And it is suggested that cosmic rays cause old age, death...
...Germany for the Danish shipbuilding industry, the Dane decided to sell his information to the British Se cret Service. Possessed of a phenomenal memory, he carried in his head the me chanical details of new German submarines and Zeppelins. When he first reported on guns big enough to bombard Paris from a distance of 75 miles, nobody would believe him. He made a fortune out of his spying, retired after the War to his native village where he is now a wealthy, highly-respected citizen...