Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trick Mirror. From gangsters, the FBI graduated to bigger fish. Within 24 hours after 1125 p.m. on Dec 7, 1941, the FBI had put 1,771 enemy aliens behind bars. The FBI scored spectacular wartime coups: arresting ten German saboteurs who landed from submarines along the Atlantic coastline; trapping a 33-man spy ring in Manhattan with the help of movie cameras and a trick mirror. All through the war, FBI agents helped man a radio station which Nazi agents had set up on Long Island, and saw to it that Berlin received just the transmissions the U.S. wanted...
...several moments, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay of Oxford University stared at the departing figure of the young man with the coal scars on his face. The man, a Staffordshire miner named John Elkin, had left school at the age of ten; yet he had come a long way to hear Lindsay lecture on philosophy. "I heartily wish," sighed Lindsay, "that all my university students had a brain as good...
...speed demon, top executives of RCA Victor, Columbia and Decca have been huddling in quiet meetings. Last week there was still no agreement. Until the industry pulled itself together, record fans had two sensible alternatives : postpone buying or buy a turntable that plays all three speeds. There are about ten on the market, ranging in price from $15 to more than...
...sales slump in household appliances, was possibly a bellwether of how good "normal" might be. G.E.'s President Charles Wilson reported a second-quarter net of $19.8 million, down 32% from the same 1948 period. However, profit was more than 100% above G.E.'s earnings of ten years ago. By such a prewar comparison, the current "recession" looked fairly prosperous...
Plagued by dysentery and mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...