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Marshal Tito yelled bloody murder, louder and more impressively than ever before. His yell last week rose from a 481-page White Book on the "aggressive activities" of Russia and her satellites against Yugoslavia. Copies were delivered to the Western nations and to U.N. Secretary General Trygve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Help for Tito | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

After several more speakers, Charles Dunn, attorney for the Massachusetts Medical Society, mumbled through the bill amid titters and imprecations, but nobody could hear him. "We can't hear," came a loud woman's voice, but there were no results. "Speak louder," she repeated, speaking louder herself. She got results from the chairman, who said something about demonstrations. "This isn't fair," she wailed, "we can't hear. This isn't fair." An usher came over and whispered something to her, and Dunn mumbled on uninterrupted. Somebody started to whistle softly, and an old lady hissed to shut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

...audible illusion," says General Electric Co. After measuring both with decibel tests, G.E. announced last week that the air-to-ground noise of a jet engine is actually about the same as or even less than that from a piston-driven plane of equal horsepower. A jet just seems louder because it travels faster and its noise strikes the ear more abruptly. Also, said G.E., the shriek of a jet is a comparatively new sound and thus attracts more attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Audible Illusion | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...they were a little annoyed when, before sunrise next day, a brighter, louder explosion thundered out of the barren plateau, waking sleepers with a start, and setting the burglar alarms ringing in North Las Vegas. "What are they trying to do-make us click like Geiger counters?" grumbled a housewife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: A Kinda Flash | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...facts, hard to come by in a stringent news blackout, would have to speak a lot louder before the West could find grounds for optimism in Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Counterattack | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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