Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should the G.I. press be free or slave? In the precise military mind of Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, there was no question about it. Last week, at a press conference in Rome, the starched boss of the Mediterranean theater, famed as a stickler for propriety and protocol, sounded off. He had ordered all letters to the once-popular "Mail Call" column of Stars and Stripes "screened" by the brass before publication...
Loran shore stations always work in pairs: the "master" and the "slave" (see diagram). Both operate on the same frequency and both broadcast the same radio "pulse signals"-short bursts of radio energy transmitted at regular intervals. The pulse from the master station appears as a "pip" on the "scope" of the plane's loran receiver. It also sets off a second pulse from the slave station, which is received as a second pip. The pulses arrive at slightly different times, since they have traveled different distances...
...which the receiver does automatically in micro-seconds (millionths of a second). For each time lag, a special chart shows a "line of position." The plane's navigator knows at once that he is somewhere on this line. Then he tunes in a second pair of master-and-slave stations operating on a different frequency, and gets a second line of position. His location on the chart is the point where the two lines intersect. A skilled operator can complete the whole problem in less than six minutes...
...daily newspapers in the U.S., a great many make money. Some are also good newspapers. One is the Dallas News. As a painstaking purveyor of the news and a slave-driving civic conscience, it is almost as deep in the heart of Texas as the Alamo...
...Annie would send housewives raiding grocers' shelves by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroad workers-most of them slave laborers. Said Annie: "At the end of the celebration, speeches were translated into Polish, Hungarian and Slovak-for the benefit of the assembled . . . workers...