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Word: reportable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sunday afternoon, at 3:45 p.m. E.S.T., Jimmy came on the air to report that the Graf Spee was weighing anchor. At 5:15, he was on again, to report that the Spee had steamed out into the Plata Estuary. Before leaving, she had transferred many of her men to the Nazi cargo steamer, Tacoma. "The commander," Jimmy hazarded, "may try to scuttle the ship about five miles out." He was covering, he said, from a dock, in the midst of a crowd. "They are doing a lot of talking," he shouted. NBC cut him off the network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...return to Paris last week from the Near East of General Maxime Weygand, to report on his preparations for an Allied Army there, added interest to the commentary. With Finland getting hers from Russia, and with Rumania apparently earmarked next, it was newsworthy bluff, if not noteworthy fact, when Generalissimo Gamelin said he feels free now for a war of maneuver-somewhere. His High Command made further show of this free feeling by sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Boast & Threat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...again went out into the blackness. After a few minutes the shadowy form of a Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115,000,000), Pratt & Whitney has hit the high point of its production history, above 350* engines a month, more than double its average for 1938. This production will be doubled when the new plant reaches its capacity next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Divinity School students are receiving increasing instruction in the social sciences and "clinical" training in institutions, Dean Sperry stated in his annual report, issued today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity Students Receiving More 'Clinical' Training, Dean Sperry Says | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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