Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moore predicted the exact month in which the British General Strike would begin: May 1926. He foretold Anschluss between Germany and Austria a year in advance. Nevertheless, last month in the Sunday Dispatch Old Moore said flatly: "During August . . . there is no doubt that Mr. Chamberlain will steer the Ship...
...chorus of boos from press and Parliament for bungling its job (TIME, Sept. 18), fortnight ago the British Ministry of Information reorganized, found a new Director General to replace Lord Perth, who became Advisor on Foreign Publicity. But newsmen still refer to British press censorship as "Perth Control...
...Communications Act of 1934 and by international agreement it is illegal, without proper authorization: 1) to intercept radio communications not intended for the general use of the public, and 2) to discuss them in print, on the air, or any other way. In the last few weeks the air has fairly crackled with important, and usually coded, admiralty radio messages-Germany calling all ships home but its submarines; Britain ordering a Mediterranean blockade; U. S. Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also...
Today, engines for big ships are produced by only three U. S. factories: Pratt & Whitney (at East Hartford, Conn.) and Wright (at Paterson, N. J.), which produce radial, air-cooled engines, and General Motors Corp.'s Allison Engineering Co. (Indianapolis), which is just getting into production on liquid-cooled inline motors. If there is ever a bottleneck in the production of aircraft for war it will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than...
...reaction," said Dr. Calingaert, "all but shakes the foundations of our general concepts of the behavior of atoms in molecules...