Word: looping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krivoi Rog, where the Red Army was closing in on the last great Nazi hedgehog in the Dnieper loop...
...defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...
...bond rally in the Loop last week hundreds of readers of the Chicago Daily News met two of their favorite newspaper characters. They were there in person: 1) "Oxie O'Rourke," a baggy-pants commentator off West Madison Street who speaks the unimportant man's view of important matters in a side-of-the-mouth argot; 2) fat-chinned Clem Lane, a near-legendary Chicago newspaper man. The two are one & the same...
...America, John. But Chicago is. . . . Well, I guess it's much the same way with us. Manchester, Bradford, or Newcastle - they'll tell you London's all right, but they're the places where the jobs get done. . . . Down here back of the Loop and among these warehouses - well, it might be most any place in England. Salford or Sunderland or Wapping, I guess. It looks kinda grey and squalid, doesn't it? Chicago's not all beautiful like the lake shore. It's far too big for that...
Feet and Hours. For the film, Fonda uses Cellophane twice the thickness of cigaret wrappings. The recording tape, a little over an inch wide, is an endless loop 350 ft. long; once around is eight minutes and in eight hours of recording the needle cuts 60 parallel grooves in the tape. Cellophane records are less bulky and more permanent than recordings on magnetized wire (TIME, May 17); the wire is subject to magnetic interference. Cellophane recording also seems likely to be a good deal cheaper for some time to come than light-wave recording (as in movie sound tracks), even...