Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumor was started by the Christian Science Monitor, which devoted a two paragraph item to the subject in a top-column, front-page story on Saturday. The Monitor gave no source for its story however, merely using the phrase "it was learned...
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...information and more real friends in Italy than any other newsman who has worked there in recent years. Moreover, his account of how Germany conquered Italy was supported in many details by another able correspondent, Saville R. Davis, whose series of articles appeared simultaneously in the Christian Science Monitor. Between them they lifted a smoke screen of speculation and rumor behind which the truth about Italy has been partly hidden for the past four months...
Beyond this miserable handling of an emergency, what stunned CAB men most was that none of the four men in the monitor stations knew what the beam was about, none had any idea of the urgency of reporting bad operation. For this, CAB, inferentially, took the blame. It had given each a book to read about radio ranges. All they had to do was initial it, to signify they understood...
...Each time the British and Australians ashore attacked an Italian fort on the Libyan littoral, the fleet submitted the place to a terrible shellacking from the sea, lazily drifting along the coast and lobbing hundreds of tons of steel into the enemy's back. For this purpose the monitor Terror, mounting 15-inch guns, and certain shallow-draught gunboats were brought all the way from the China station...