Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than just successful in carrying out its boast to introduce fine but relatively unknown works to radio audiences. But probably the highlight of the year in the way of live classical music programs is the N.B.C. Symphony at 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoons. During its span it has featured such conductors as Leopold Stokowski, Frank Black and Arturo Toscanini, the last performing everything from a superb Brahms' cycle to "The Stars and Stripes Forever." This program has not, however, been backward in introducing new works, performing for example, Prokofieff's music for "Alexander Nevsky," and a Stravinsky symphony...
This was the biggest formation ever seen of the biggest plane in the war, the Merseburg-323. The ME-323 was developed from designs for a monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks...
...Tokyo broadcast a translated digest of the speech to the U.S. This version had been drastically altered. The English broadcast quoted General Sato as having said that Japanese planes "are in a position to attack the American continent. ..." The Japs had already solved the problem presented by "the wide span of area between Japan and America." In fact, said the revised version, if the Americans knew what was good for them they would stop sending their battle planes to the Pacific and Asia, and prepare to "defend their own country against a possible menace of Axis and Japanese airmen...
Representing a more recent influence, in a luxurious office in a new, spic-&-span downtown building sits the handsome editor of El Pampero, the biggest and best Nazi newspaper outside Europe. Everywhere on his editors' and writers' tables the swastika has been industriously whittled; between sips of yerba maté he corrupts all the news he can lay his hands on. There are also the Communist La Hora, the Japanese Momenta Argentina and the British Libre Palabra. Through the distribution by various governments of free features and news, some provincial newspapers have taken .on the appearance of propaganda...
...greatest loss that Stoughtonites incurred in moving to Weld seems to be the luxury of an on-the-spot coke dispenser. Now the poor lads have to walk all the way across the Yard to Hollis--a distance that certain experts claim is practically the same as the span between Weld and McBride's. and much less interesting...