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Word: supersecrets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fairly clear she understands that it's true what she's been hearing and thinking about Alan, but it's too late. However, a nearby horse comes to her rescue and tramples Alan to death, leaving the way clear for Michael to take over. (Oops, there goes the "supersecret" ending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

Last week Torontonians were startled to learn that Casa Loma had been the hush-hushest of all Canadian war plants. In 1942, when the Germans bombed out an English plant making supersecret sonic submarine detectors, the British Admiralty picked the engineering works of William Gorman, in Toronto, to do the job. Bill Corman picked an unlikely spot: the huge Casa Loma's stables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Stable Sonics | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor's eye. So supersecret were his operations that new employes got a stiff liquor-holding test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Long Time No See | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...area was rich in coal and hydroelectric power, and had excellent communication facilities. Later they imported French, Belgian and Russian laborers, and set them to work expanding the Krizek plants. Laboratories were built, buildings enlarged, new units erected. One of the new units was put underground, and was supersecret. It was known simply as "the Weser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Puzzle of Podmokly | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...from a ship in Manhattan. He was met by a Bell Telephone engineer. They meandered into a movie before driving out to the Bell man's suburban house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radar | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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