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...into huddles with NBC Chief Engineer O. B. Hanson. Early in February, NBC's big studio was closed off. Workmen built a slanting roof over the stage, faced the back wall with a marcelled pattern of half columns (technical name: convex diffusers), turned the side walls into a checkerboard of curved sections-all done to encourage resonance...
Across Iowa's rich checkerboard of farm lands, men shucked the last of the hog-fattening corn, shaved the empty yellowed stalks from their fields, plowed the brown earth...
Worse still for Weygand, it appeared that the success of the German Blitzkrieg was the result of a major military invention. There have been such inventions before (e.g., the Macedonian phalanx, the Roman Legion with its checkerboard maniple), and usually they have given their inventors military mastery for generations. Not merely tanks, not merely bombers, not merely greater concentrations of troops and materiel but a new military technique of using all these things together was the secret of German success...
Closely connected with guerilla bands in Shansi and other provinces of northern China, Major Carlson said that China is like a checkerboard with the Japanese holding the lines and the Chinese the squares. Meaning that the invaders control the railways and the defenders hold the space between, he recalled that in one place, a small defending force surrounded on four sides has not surrendered to the enemy in almost a year of fighting...
Last week Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, accompanied by a dozen assistants and reporters, boarded a chartered plane in Chicago, set out on a twelve-day trip through 16 States west of the Mississippi. Like a swiftly moving piece upon a checkerboard, the plane zig-zagged across Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and settled down one afternoon last week at Salt Lake City.* Thus the campaign manager of the Presidential nominee who had declared for a sound currency "convertible into gold" arrived in the heart of the silver country...