Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...timed to the minute; ceaseless bombardments of rumors, blankets of lies and alarms as blinding as poison gas; provocations exploding like mines before advancing troops; flank attacks of economic reprisals, feints with threats, promises, atrocities, radio broadcasts, newspaper assaults launched simultaneously and redirected at noon and at 6 p. m. each day; a war of barter deals, whispering campaigns, mystification, currency raids, posters, mass meetings, blackouts-weapons against which military men can only point their guns in vain. Military maneuvers are but an adjunct in this weird conflict. It has its positions that must be taken, its genius, Adolf Hitler...
...Francisco. With her 17 sleek, buff cars, well-stocked bars, roomy lounges, the $2,000,000 train (owned jointly by Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western) was the nearest thing to a night club on wheels in U. S. transport. It was 10:30 p. m. Some of the 149 passengers were abed in pastel-shaded roomettes, but the club car was still comfortably full...
...Diesel-powered locomotive, Engineer Edward Hecox, who had driven the flyer ever since she started her regular 39 ¼-hour Chicago-San Francisco run in 1938, watched for the steeply palisaded curve near Humboldt River bridge. Nearing the curve, he throttled down to 60 m...
...that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer, but what the hell for I don't know...
...recording outfit in the U. S. Yet in its time, NBC has okayed only one network recording (the Hindenburg disaster). Last week, however, NBC stepped bravely out. Henceforth Canada Dry's Information Please, staged in Manhattan's Radio City on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 9 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time, will be recorded by Los Angeles' KECA instead of being immediately broadcast when it reaches the West coast at 4:30 Pacific Standard Time. The recording will then be transmitted over a "platter" network of seven NBC-Blue Coast stations at 8:30 p. m., Pacific...