Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight, 5,000 wounded German soldiers arrived in Berlin from the Polish front. Only a handful of doctors and nurses were at the station to help them, and there were neither stretchers nor ambulances enough to go around. Aided by scores of "Hitler girls," the bandaged men were bundled into busses, trucks and taxis, driven to hospitals already overcrowded...
...pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...
...week's end, WMCA seemed to be damned if it did, damned if it didn't. For if the FCC decided not to chastise the station, the Federal Trade Commission might do so for misleading advertising...
...admiralty radio messages-Germany calling all ships home but its submarines; Britain ordering a Mediterranean blockade; U. S. Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also broadcast by at least one radio station, Manhattan's WMCA, and last week there was an official fuss, with apparently more bark than bite...
...crisis progressed, WMCA got a big hand from Manhattan columnists. One reported: "Several weeks ago the station hired an expert of naval code who stationed himself near the shortwave receiver of a local morning newspaper. As secret orders from shore to ship were flashed from England and Germany he quickly decoded them and rushed his findings to the microphone...