Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all carriers, the CVA-58 would not go it alone, but would have to operate as part of a carrier task force, to be accompanied by 16 destroyers (to provide a radar and antisubmarine screen), four to six cruisers for antiaircraft and surface support and at least two smaller carriers to carry fighter planes. The CVA-58 will probably carry about the equivalent of an Air Force bomber group, of which the Air Force has 16. One spread of torpedoes or a near-miss from an atomic bomb would put it out of action...
...Kahn, unlike Entomologist Hyslop (see below), is fiercely anti-insect. He went to Cuba and made a phonograph record of the song of a female Anopheles albimanus (a malaria carrier). Then he put a powerful loudspeaker in a buzzing Cuban swamp and surrounded it by a deadly electrified screen...
...human ear. But to male mosquitoes it is apparently overwhelming. Dr. Kahn turned on his loudspeaker. A wave of excitement hummed through the swamp. On eager wings the males zoomed toward the trap. Like mariners wrecked by Lorelei's song, the male mosquitoes smacked against the electrified screen...
Last week Churchcraft Pictures, which makes religious films for distribution to churches, completed a nationwide survey on whether or not the figure of Christ should be used on the screen. Yes, said four out of five pastors, parochial-school heads and Sunday-school superintendents. Ordinary churchgoers agreed, almost as emphatically...
Speaking before a many-sided and responsive audience to close to 1200, Wallace supporter O. John Rogge 11 times called the evening's discussion of the U. S. Communist question, "a typical smoke-screen for fascists, American style" while lawyer Morris Ernst 9 times hammered for completely aboveboard Communist Party operations...