Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain, "at two hours after zero," planned to run for cover with its entire domestic radio system, using "wired wireless" over telephone and electric power lines. This system would be proof against any sort of interference except a direct hit on a central transmitter. For that sort of emergency, BBC has already set up stand-by transmitting apparatus in secluded spots away from England's easily bomb-sighted industrial centres. BBC's war emergency plans also included shutting down its television transmitters, releasing the ultra-high frequencies for special military services...
William H. Lewis, 18, of Spokane; North Central High School...
Indiana: Donald H. Eldredge, Jr., 17, of South Bend; Central High School...
Benjamin Rees, 17, of Omaha; Central High School...
...market-bound trucks, spilled thousands of gallons on the roadsides. Strikers in automobiles threw bottles of kerosene on trucks that did not stop. Pickets fought State troopers, deputies and non-strikers. One man, slow getting out of the way of a charging milk tanker, was killed. A New York Central train with a load of milk was stalled on greased rails...