Word: tokenized
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...only one token of a change coming over radio, a change more profound than loss of advertising revenue, a war change in radio's audience...
...wide over the 3,000-mile girth of the Indies. Lean, weathered Major General L. H. van Oyen, commander of the N.E.I. Air Force, did not have enough planes of his own to meet him at every point. This week Washington announced that he had got something more than token help. Five U.S. bombers raided a Jap base in northern Celebes,* were speedily jumped upon by Jap interceptors. Without pursuit support, the bombers fought it out spectacularly. They reported they had knocked down nine Jap fighters. They lost two ships, brought home a third damaged, with four crew members wounded...
...notion of employing airships as plane carriers is not regarded in Washington as moonshine. The rumor is rife that the Nazis intend to load up the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-70 with planes, ship them west for token bombing raids on the U.S. It would be a dangerous trip for them in more ways than one. The Nazis have no helium, would have to inflate their dirigibles with inflammable hydrogen. The U.S. still has the only helium available-thanks largely to tough little Harold Ickes, who killed a proposed sale to the Germans back...
...some time Butch had been skimping his Mayoralty to work at the Office of Civilian Defense. By the same token he was skimping OCD. Even Mr. Roosevelt, according to a persistent report, shared this view, but could think of no painless way of easing LaGuardia out. Meantime hen-shaped Fiorello continued to fly back & forth between Washington and New York, always a little out of breath and red in the face. At a ceremony marking the start of his third Mayoralty term, he flapped his wet wings and exploded with bantam wrath...
...Reports from Ottawa said that Canada would cancel Britain's war materials debt, more than $1,000,000,000, as a token of unity...