Word: two-way
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...Coastguardsmen followed them to the tent. This time it was guarded by a husky teen-aged German-talking youth, who charged at "Neddie" Collins with a bayonet, ran smack into a Coast Guard fist. As Neddie and his pal watched wide-eyed. Guardsmen hauled away spy and radio-a two-way, short-wave station complete with hidden aerial...
...veils from their wives. But they learned from him how to play one great nation against another. So far in World War II they have been playing the Axis against the Allies. If Envoy Engert, over tea and mulberries, can persuade Afghan leaders that the hour for such two-way policies is running out, he can march back from Kabul a diplomatic hero...
...Then," says Tobe—who looks like a small version of Jimmy Durante, with milder features but just as frenzied a manner—"blood money came along." Tanks, jeeps, etc., with two-way radios had to have noise filters, and the ones available elsewhere were bulky and expensive. Tobe barged into the Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ. early in 1940 to try for some business. More to get rid of him than anything else, the Major in charge gave him the toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered...
...Being able, as your story indicates, to hear both sides of the two-way conversation, he would know both frequencies used, merely by consulting the calibrated dial of his receiver...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia laid up one of his two limousines, moved his fire-chasing gadgets (red spotlights, two-way radio with antenna) to a two-seated coup...