Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cure? What to do about it? First, says Cleveland, N.A.M. should have a free election of top officers, and let the membership play a bigger role. It might then adopt a code of ethics "with an eye to something more than short-run profits...
...group whose membership is voluntary, Cleveland admits, enforcing the code would be tough and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless, "let organized industrialists define economic abuses and act against them . . . develop adequate group controls in those industrial areas where real economic competition has ceased to exist . . . look beyond the short-run profit motive to the old but valid goals of true free enterprise. Until at least a start is made in this direction, the possibility of progressive leadership's emerging from within industry is very remote...
...place was Valentia, Ireland, European terminus of Cyrus Fields' newly laid transatlantic cable. A young telegrapher named Joseph May heard an unfamiliar hum on his code receiver. He stumbled on the cause: a shaft of sunlight, streaming through the window, fell on an electrical resister and jammed his code receiver. When May passed his hand between the light and the resister, the hum stopped. But why? May decided, rightly and brightly, that the resister (or the selenium that coated it) must have what are now called photoelectric properties; i.e., that it could convert light values into electric values...
...many years after the marriage of the Edisons that some officious crackpot attempted to gild the lily by changing the perfectly simple Morse code into the more difficult "International" code...
...Iron Curtain (20th Century-Fox) is the fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...