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...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Code of the Sea | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Documentation | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...shape of fallen timber is shown by the almost total loss of the 2,300 acre Harvard forest in Petersham where between five and ten million board feet of lumber are down. In an attempt to preserve the safety of lives and property in this region by prompt emergency measures Ward Shepard '10 Director of the Harvard Forest, is in Boston today to confer with Harry Hopkins, head of the W. P. A., and state officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANGER OF GIGANTIC FIRES IN STATE ADDS TO DISASTER | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...order from PWAdministrator Ickes-acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding-telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARYLAND: Personal Judgment | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American Radio Relay League's official publication, because Archduke Anton is OE3AH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: OE3AH | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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