Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtroom lights were dimmed for the first time since the trial started, and the defendants sat in semidarkness. Across a motion picture screen moved, in light and shadow, what veteran correspondents called the most terrible pictures of mass slaughter and torture they had ever seen. It was an endless stream of corpses-single corpses and small mountains of them, corpses lying still and corpses being carted away by bulldozers, corpses shrunk by starvation and corpses battered by boots or clubs, staring corpses and corpses which, miraculously, had still some life left in them and feebly moved about before the camera...
Only one of the defendants refused to look at the massive show of death: Solid Citizen Schacht sat with his back turned to the screen from beginning...
...more books than Boston's had. Chicago, like the other delegations, had a newsreel to show its beauties. As the commentator said "This is the sort of thing worthy of study in Chicago," the reel stuck, and a bevy of fan dancers on ice skates froze on the screen, grinning toothily at the statesmen...
...ounce bundle of six thousand such trips, called "Chaff" by the American, dropped from a plane and scattered in the air, gives an echo resembling that of three bombers on a radar scope. Large numbers of these small bundles scattered through the sky can effectively screen whole formations of bombers from enemy radar; similarly, the "Chaff" dropped by one plane can present the illusion of a mass raid where there is no raid...
...test pilots, are turning to radio-controlled planes equipped with television. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. described an experimental plane which takes off and lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead. Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed, and the plane screams down to earth, no life is lost. The records of the flight survive the crash...