Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craggy hills of Crete this week there was fighting between German and Italian garrison troops. Warned by a special BBC broadcast that their hour had not yet come, Crete's guerrillas stayed out of the fight. But how they have prepared for their hour is reported in this dispatch from Cairo by TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder...
...German dispatch: "The British and Americans have no longer any time to lose in the war. Time is against them and forces them to action regardless of the proper time...
...Spanish dispatch: "This will not be the decisive battle for Europe...
...medical officer (Captain Louvera B. Schmidt of Salem, Ore.) recorded the cause of death and the number and type of wounds as each body was unclothed. Members of the graves registration company cut open each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City. One identification tag has been left on each body, the other nailed to the cross which will be placed above the grave until a larger metal plate can be stamped. The graves are laid out in perfect geometrical pattern; they have been charted...
...pleasant change was inaugurated by FCC, which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...