Word: counteractivity
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British Arabic broadcasts, begun a year ago to counteract Italian influence, found little favor at first because they specialized in American swing and European folk songs, both unintelligible to Arab ears. Last week Britain gave a special broadcast for the first anniversary of the Arabic program, which showed not only that Britain had learned a few broadcasting tricks, but demonstrated the advantages of a full purse in the radio propaganda game...
...Recent nightly "straight news" programs from British Broadcasting Corp. in German, designed to counteract the distorted news given by the Nazi officials to the German public, have had a welcome reception in many a German home. BBC has received a surprising number of unsigned letters from German listeners urging it to continue the broadcasts...
...Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...
...established neighborhoods and moving farther and farther from the downtown business areas. The older inhabitants are replaced by those living on a lower economic scale. Rents decrease, values fall and houses are allowed to deteriorate because the income will not support proper expenditures for repair." In an attempt to counteract this, FHLBB, its subsidiary, Home Owners' Loan Corp., and the U.S. Housing Authority announced that they had chosen the old Waverly Village section of Baltimore as a testing ground. In prospect, if the program worked, is its extension all over...
...lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe and the bit. When a bit needs changing, all the pipe must be snaked out of the hole and then lowered again by the derrick. The pipe is kept full of mud to counteract the gas pressures below, which might otherwise blow out destructively...