Word: val
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstration of air defenses was held in the ditched and tunneled Esplanade des Invalides outside Napoleon's tomb. There are concrete gun platforms on the wooded Meudon and St. Cloud hills where Americans have their villas and restaurants serve cool drinks to heat-weary Parisians. On Mont Valérien, westward across the Seine from the Bois de Boulogne, is an impressive layout of long-barreled guns and searchlights with independent generators. Large railroad station signs, a give-away to low-flying raiders, have been removed. Every Frenchman in Paris has his gas mask, and he is subject...
...Friends. Chief insider in the 'Beaverbrook set" is fat, bland, arrogant Valentine Edward Charles (''Val") Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, who is regarded in London as an English Walter Winchell, gets $25,000 a year for turning out a half page of heavy chitchat for the Sunday Express and Daily Express. Sample: "I have had to give up reading bridge articles, because I notice that Y and Z always get the good hands, whereas poor old A and B usually only save a slam by preternatural cunning. I know so well what A and B feel." The two Beaverbrook...
Death Of A World starts off on another tangent. Mionnet, a young priest who successfully saved a bishop from scandal in an earlier volume, is sent to Rome by Gurau and Poincare to spy on Cardinal Merry del Val, Papal Secretary of State who Gurau believes is intriguing with Germany. In Rome, Mionnet collects scandals about the Cardinal and is at the point of buying a blackmailer's documents when he is summoned to the Vatican to interview Merry del Val himself. There the plot breaks off, with Mionnet, like the hero of an old-fashioned movie serial, dangling...
Notable during the past several days has been the activity of the Harvard Bureau for street Traffic Research, which attracted attention in the newspapers Thursday morning with a statement on auto headlights by Val J. Roper, of General Electric, and this morning with an address on traffic fatalities by a member of the National Safety Council. The public has slowly come to realize that driving a car is an exacting, complicated task. They are now eager to be told what the latest research in this field has discovered. For this reason, the Street Traffic Bureau is an important public oracle...
Characterizing the mounting toll of traffic fatalities as "largely an after dark increment," Val J. Roper, engineer in charge of automotive lighting of the General Electric Company, advocated an increase from 30 to 50 watts in the brilliance of headlight, in an address at the Burean for Street Traffic Research yesterday...