Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before Japan attacked the U.S. an FCC monitor in Oregon heard a new and interesting short-wave signal: no message, just two-and three-letter calls. Promptly all monitoring stations in the U.S. began to listen for it. Directional measurements were taken in Texas, in Nebraska, in Georgia, in Massachusetts, in Maryland. Triangulations were worked out. By the time the transmitter began sending messages-in code-FCC knew about where it was. It was about in the German Embassy...
Germans who dared listen to foreign broadcasts could hear the slow ticking of a clock from the London studios of the BBC. After every seven ticks an announcer said in German: "Every seven seconds a German dies in Russia. Is it your husband? Is it your son or your brother?" BBC officials described the seven-second death interval as a "conservative estimate" based on a figure of 3,000,000 German dead in Russia since June...
Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...
Saturday night, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his second and what was to have been his last Treasury program-but it was announced that Maestro Toscanini would be back. Something to listen to was Toscanini's martial rendering of The Star-Spangled Banner: thunderous, romantic and exalted...
...House Military Affairs Committee sat down to listen to Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, administrator of the draft. The man charged with the vital task of mobilizing the nation's man power has done a quiet, capable job with the first draft. Young (48), Indiana-born, he once taught school to earn tuition for college. Though his ancestors were Mennonites (who are deeply opposed to war), he joined the National Guard, was sent to the Mexican border in 1916, served in France, returned and passed his examinations for the Regular Army. One of his two sons is at West...