Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowed to tap telephone wires and did. On Dec. 5 agents overheard an "apparently meaningless and therefore highly suspicious" telephone message from a Japanese newspaper woman to Tokyo. The FBI passed the message on to Military Intelligence, which submitted it to General Short at 6 o'clock on Dec. 6. "As Short was unable to decipher the meaning," said the Board, "he did nothing about it and went on to a party...
...blond Wayne Chatfield Taylor, longtime New Dealer (AAA, Treasury, Commerce) and the man who gave Sewell Avery the heave-ho. In financing world reconstruction, his E.I.B. will assume a major role among Government agencies, for there is at present no other Government source which foreign nations can tap for the credits they must have. Until Bretton Woods' International Bank becomes a fact, E.I.B. loans will be a potent power in world politics and trade...
Last week, the Office of Defense Transportation made it plain how much worse they might get. It ordered U.S. railroads to pool all their passenger and baggage cars, so that they will be on tap to meet Army demands. This was partly scare talk, to keep civilians off trains. But it was also a plain warning that, from now on, civilians will travel only at the pleasure of the Army...
...Bush's "thinking" machine, which he calls "memex," would be a desk with a microfilm library inside and several translucent screens on top. In the library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
Bill Robinson, 67-year-old past master of tap, now dancing on Broadway, told an interviewer that his real name was Luther, and recalled how he had changed it: "I said to myself, 'I'll never go about the world with nobody callin' me Luther,' so I caught my brother whose name was Bill and I gave him a good whippin'. I told him that from now on his name was Percy and mine was Bill. He's in North Carolina how, and he's still Percy Robinson...