Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still wearing (contrary to Berlin reports) the special soldier suit he had sworn on Sept. 1 to clothe himself in "until victory or death," Adolf Hitler rose one night last week before his rubber-stamp Reichstag. He had just returned from a one-day tour of his latest prize of war, the ruined city of Warsaw (see p. 45). He was now about to launch his well-heralded peace offensive...
...system of rationing by food cards was working so cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples Welfare Department to "pregnant women, the lame and mothers rich in children...
...Russia displeases a people nearly 100% Catholic. Moreover they were told less than a year ago that in Spain they were fighting Bolshevism. If a conflict of interests between Italy and Germany-Russia were needed, it could readily be found in the Balkans, long one of Italy's special spheres of interests and now claimed as the special problem of the Communist and Nazi dictators...
...rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single line filled may win a bag of groceries. Specially-designated "Cash" lines may win up to $100. For last week's big game over WGN, 1,100,000 listeners held cards, kept 25 National Tea special telephone operators busy with 10,000 Musicos...
Correspondents on their way to the front (see p. 58) also will submit to a double censorship: once in the field, again at the end of their special wire to London. To most newswriters it was clear last week that Britain's official press hierarchy, though changed in form, was little changed in substance, might prove no less muddleheaded than before...