Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This indictment got a partial reply last week when Allied Headquarters in North Africa revealed that broadcasting had begun with a new U.S. propaganda line over the first powerful U.S. transmitter (50 kilowatt, medium wave) in North Africa. Unlike past broadcasts from the U.S., the programs are not called the Voice of America but speak for all the United Nations from North Africa. They are dedicated to telling the news about the war, calmly, matter-of-factly, even when it is unfavorable to the United Nations...
...theory is the only one that accounts for the presumed age of the sun (some two billion years) and also for its enormous steady production of energy. Says Theorist Bethe: "At the rate of one cent per kilowatt hour we should have to pay a billion billion dollars to keep the sun going for a single second...
...Centigrade, there is a loss of 0.0286 units of atomic weight. It is this mass which is converted into energy, according to Einstein's relativity formulas. On this principle, for each gram of the sun's hydrogen there would be about 55,000 kilowatt hours of available energy...
...gram of coal burning yields about 1/100th of a kilowatt hour.) This is ample to explain the sun's energy, and the supply is big enough to last 30 billion years at its present rate of consumption...
From an underground concrete shell just outside Chungking "The Voice of China" talks to the world-especially to Japan. Throughout its three-year life The Voice (35-kilowatt station XGOY) has suffered World War II's most persistent, punishing bombing. Once bomb blasts tore down its antennas; thrice its studios have been totally destroyed. Somehow or other, The Voice has managed to keep speaking every...