Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without mentioning these figures, which make strange reading in other United Nations' capitals, the President told a press conference his opinion of the jam-packed shopping districts around Washington. Three-quarters of the display windows, he pointed out, were crammed with luxuries-just luxuries. If the merchants would only put these luxuries out of sight, people would not ask for them. If people did not ask for them, shopkeepers would not try to reorder them. If shopkeepers did not reorder them, manufacturers might conserve vitally needed manpower...
With the dogged persistence of antiaircraft batteries blazing away at attacking bombers, Axis radio transmitters are fighting off United Nations' broadcasts with strange and unpleasant noises. When World War II began, Nazi jamming was unpredictable. Today Germany, Italy and Japan all jam regularly, systematically, most of the time.* In spite of their efforts, their jamming is far from 100% effective. The jammer's basic difficulty is that a determined listener can follow a speaker's voice through almost any kind of a din, can grasp the gist of a message even though he hears only a word...
...principle, jamming is as simple as ABC: the jamming station sends out a conflicting broadcast on the same frequency as the offending broadcast. But United Nations broadcasters have various means of fighting back. San Francisco's KGEI sends its programs across the Pacific on at least five different wave lengths, jumps from one to another to evade the Japs. BBC sometimes fights interference by changing its wave length slightly in mid-broadcast; by the time the jamming station catches up to it, it may be on the move again. Furthermore, BBC's European Service...
...Nazis and send them to another camp to be bound, with 1,250 other Germans, in reprisal for the chaining of Canada's Dieppe raiders (TIME, Oct. 19). But the Canadians were so banged up in the fight (one man had his skull fractured by a jam jar) that they sent for reinforcements before attending to the 400 barricaded Nazis in Bowmanville. Said one guard with a shiner: "The Nazis are pretty good fellows generally, but they're cross as bears today...
...course rate left students with neither time nor material for the integration necessary to the success of Harvard education. Science students, particularly, found it impossible to digest the full quota of factual material usually presented, while those with long lab assignments were over-whelmed by the attempt to jam sixteen weeks' work into the five-and-one-half allotted. Short exam periods immediately following final lectures cut out all review and forced students to resort to "coffee-and-benzadrine" cramming. The impossibility of tutorial in the Summer Session removed the last vestige of Harvard's traditionally thorough training...