Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly seven hours the Sprengstoff continued to explode. Every explosion caused a new fire, every fire a new explosion. Telephone connections were cut off and iron-clad censorship clamped on all news dispatches. Secret police reached the scene almost as quickly as the ambulances, closeted foreign correspondents who attempted to gather first-hand news. The Associated Press did succeed in getting to the bewildered Burgomaster of Reinsdorf while the town still burned. His account...
...Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...
...secret was John Hertz's cordial dislike for the banking house at No. 52 William Street, Manhattan, but Kuhn, Loeb was an enduring tradition in Paramount. Not until last January was the final Kuhn, Loeb fade-out effected. Then the slate of new directors was proposed without a Kuhn, Loeb partner. The $6,000,000 of underwriting involved in reorganization was handled by Mr. Odium's Atlas Corp. for a nominal 1% (TIME...
...months, newspaper darkrooms in Chicago and Detroit have closeted mysterious goings-on. Last March the result of this secret business first showed in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. Last month it appeared in Hearst's Detroit Times. Last week it landed in the Detroit Free Press. The secret: sharp "stop-action" strip pictures of fast-moving objects. Each newspaper was working with its own camera invention, was still secretive about details. But enough facts had leaked out to indicate that a new action-picture vogue was about to spread through the U. S. Press...
...last fortnight's Western Conference Track Meet at Ann Arbor, Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...