Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voice radio" is only a symbol of the technological revolution taking place in world communications. Cable, radio and telephone companies are involved in a fundamental reconstruction of their facilities. World War II increased their traffic tremendously, and their need now is to handle more words more swiftly and directly. The worldwide communications network woven by the U.S. Armed Forces during the war has helped considerably. It went a long way toward standardizing communications procedures and equipment throughout the world, and it left a great deal of automatic equipment on location on five continents...
Like Lindbergh, Wallace is also an earnest and sincere man and, in a number of respects, also a symbol. Americans rarely know their Secretary of Commerce, but they know Wallace-or think they do. Everybody knows a little bit about him, but very few know the complete man. In the aggregate they admire, respect, hate or ridicule him. Almost all are either puzzled or dismayed by him, and wonder how he ever got to Washington-forgetting that he would probably never have been there except for Franklin Roosevelt's penchant for collecting men of all shades, types, opinions...
...million, missing the daily 7 p.m. episode of Un Homme would have been as unthinkable as substituting English for French. Listeners hissed Miser Seraphim Poudrier as he added to his $70,000 hoard and forgot to mention his avarice at confession. They sent gifts to his wife, Donalda, symbol of saintly suffering. These two main characters are so real that in Quebec "Seraphim" now means "miser," and good Catholics are "as saintly as Donalda...
...woman behind this non-commercial venture was almost a symbol of radio commercialism: Elaine Carrington, "Queen of the Soapers," who makes $200,000 a year by writing three soap operas...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...