Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading a task force toward Pearl Harbor when the Japs struck; Grace Tully, personal secretary to Franklin Roosevelt and guardian of his personal papers; Secretaries Hull, Welles and Grew and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who in his 1944 campaign had abjured all reference to the cracking of the Jap code, on the suggestion of the U.S. Army...
...they feel moral guilt for the atrocities committed by their armies? A. Unquestionably, yes. These things genuinely shock them as con traventions of their moral code. In dividual Japs committed more bar barities than the Germans...
Dear Lord: In the battle that goes through life, I ask but a field that is fair, A chance that is equal with all in the strife, A courage to strive and to dare. And if I should win, let this be the code: With my faith and my honor held high. And if I should lose let me stand by the road And cheer as the winners...
...suit against the major studios, to divorce producers from control of theaters, was in its third week. On the West Coast, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was sniffing at the heels of the independent producers, who seemed to be getting too much money through a loophole in the Revenue Code. Variety predicted that the outcome might well be no suits to recover more than $30,000,000 in back taxes...
...Scientists hate secrecy. Their professional code compels them to tell the world about each new discovery. Besides, the greatest reward they ever get is the appre ciation of their colleagues. If they could not talk and write about their achieve ments, their lives would be barren indeed...