Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Paris, where it has become routine to guard the nation's art against the menace of German guns, the doors of the Louvre were locked and workmen began stolidly to remove its treasures. Some were stored behind steel walls in the Bank of France; others were carted off...
NBC's one-man dramatic workshop is a 30-year-old, hornrimmed, half-pint scrivener named Arch Oboler, who in the last five years has written some 200 radio plays, cast many of them, directed some of them standing on a table so the actors could see him. About...
Sure as shooting, in a big league war, there would be an almighty jam around the dials of radios which might hear propaganda and news from the other side. Hedging Italy's borders, for example, are reported about 100 small, telegraphic transmitters, some of which have lately been suspected...
This sort of large-scale jamming, however, would ruin domestic communication. So well is this recognized, and so indispensable is radio considered as a medium for domestic communication, maintaining morale, that some powers last week were making other arrangements for maintaining domestic radio communication under outside radio fire.
France plans no wired wireless, no commandeering of radio apparatus. France's highly "atomized" radio system, a freestyle, non-network jumble of 27 Government and private stations, by its nature is proof against such hurts as the bombing of a central transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built...