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...Netherlands East Indies, which had been pumping out tales of U.S. weakness, Jap might for months before war broke in the Pacific; of Radio Falange in Madrid and Radio Vichy, whose assignment is to revile Yankee culture and Yankee "imperialism" for Latin American ears; of Radio Saīgon, now an instrument of Jap propaganda in Southern Asia...
...equipment NBC installed in the garage adjoining Engineer Smith's pleasant stucco house was similar to that used in its Long Island listening post. It has three receivers constantly beamed on Tokyo, Saīgon and Chungking. The three receivers are due to be manned from 4 a.m. to early afternoon, best time for the area covered, and will be monitored at other times when hot news is expected or when reception at the Long Island listening post...
Japan's "joint-defense" effort was excellently coordinated. Hardly was the announcement out than Japan's ships nosed in at Saïgon, were landing their freight of men and guns. As the troops arrived, Governor General Jean Decoux hardly looked up from the conference table in Hanoï, where he was having a long serious talk with the chief of Japan's military mission, Major General Raishiro Sumita...
...people of the Pacific Northwest, public power is nothing new. Seattle has had a municipal utility since 1905, and some other towns in Washington and Ore gon have had them even longer. But behind these scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far wider area than the famed British grid. Eleven of them have combined assets of well over $400,000,000. But compared with Grand Coulee and Bonneville, the Northwest's private power resources are minuscule. When they reach their combined ultimate capacity of 2,438,400 kilowatts, the Bonneville Power Administration (which administers...
...probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even as Indo-China fought Thailand, Japanese commercial planes flew from Saïgon to Bangkok carrying agents and supplies. The Japanese fifth column which had worked effectively in the north had moved on to Saïgon in the south...