Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Fleet of small submarines and torpedo boats, floated down the Danube or shipped in pieces by rail, was assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...
...English scientist, Fox Talbot, had finally managed to evolve a transparent negative, a flimsy sheet of waxed paper from which, for the first time, prints could be reproduced. Talbot called his new kind of photograph the calotype. Taking Talbot's idea, Hill got technical assistance from a young chemist named Robert Adamson, set up a photographic studio in the heart of Edinburgh...
...A.A.R. stubbornly, we mean idle tank cars sitting at sidings for weeks at a time. A questionnaire had revealed them a year ago, a May survey had substantiated the number, and so had a "random" survey of Aug. 7. To show he meant real cars, Pelley produced a photograph...
...they all thought a lot of him, and as one of the workers told him when he left, he might one day even have charge of a floor. But the pull of England was strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...
...Freemasons of the U.S. had a right to be puzzled last week over the Nazis' latest "sensational exposure" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plastered over the Berlin papers, heralded in scare-heads, was a "secret illustrated document" a six-year-old group photograph showing the President wearing the apron of a Freemason...