Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciated by amateurs with weak receiving sets. The 540 Class A stations which now use the 360-meter length will be allowed to retain it, but new stations weaker than Class B must come into the 222-300 band. The Department of Commerce is enlarging its forces to cover the country in nine inspection districts and check the wave lengths of every station...
...airplane for mail carrying has hitherto been the loss of time through inability to fly at night. According to a statement by Postmaster General New, night flying will be inaugurated in July or August and a continuous service between New York and San Francisco will cover the intervening 3,000 miles in 28 hours...
Quite different from recent fiction appears an ambitious attempt by Robert Cutler, a Harvard graduate in the class of 1916, to cover, in a novel of four hundred pages, "American life" and to cover it in all its complexity. "The Speckled Bird" is the Kaleidoscopic result. We are given a formal and appropriate introduction to a stiff New England household which had existed untarnished for more than three centuries: we are allowed to sit at the luxurious table of an unpolished but kindly Irish financier who had survived two panics and who now entertained a host of uncouth "hangers...
...fact that the Department of Justice used agents provacateurs to trap the Communists was one of the sensational revelations of the Foster trial. The State revealed the identity of another "under cover" man from the Department by adding the name of Louis Lobel to the list of witnesses against Ruthenberg. Lobel was one of the Government spies who watched the secret convention of the Communists before it was raided by direction of Francis Morrow ("K-97"), star witness for the prosecution against Foster. Dramatic developments are expected...
...Department of Justice declares that the dissolution is "only a trick to fool the workers and permit the Communists to operate with less danger of imprisonment." "The Communists may have given up their illegal party," said R. J. Branegan, "under cover" man in the Department of Justice, "but they have not given up their organization. That is to say, the nucleus of revolutionists who controlled the illegal party remain in control of the Workers' Party, and retain their affiliation with Moscow...