Word: visual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adequate war film while the battles rage: only time will give the proper perspective for another "What Price Glory?." But the movies can clarify for the public the issues that lie behind the war. Besides producing entertainment, the films can justify their existence in wartime by giving visual representation to the crisis of the conflict, by presenting facts and not fiction, even in the most romantic and melodramatic of war films...
...Transmogrified downtown ticket offices in Chicago and Boston, from bank tellers' grilles to desks that look like bank executives'. For tours and bigger trips, private consultation rooms are provided. On the wall, an illuminated map (a "visual time table") flashes routes of the company's crack trains...
After the first stunning shock, the defenders swung into action. Spotters in the Navy Yard signal tower picked up the attackers, flashed air-raid warnings via visual signals. Working coolly under enemy bombs and machine-gun fire and shrapnel from defending anti-aircraft batteries, the signalmen routed scores of orders to ships standing out to sea or fighting from berths...
Desert warfare is like naval warfare, as Winston Churchill has said. In some ways it is more like the warfare of wooden sailing ships than that of dreadnoughts. Desert war is a visual spectacle that calls for a Turner in the mood of The Burning of the Ships-with just a dash of Dali's eye for desert plains strewn with unreasonable wreckage. Herewith a composite picture of a day on last week's field, as described by various British correspondents on the spot...
...Fradd perfected the use of silhouettes to determine which students were in need of the exercises. The process, later modified by the "shadow graph", spread to all parts of the country. In 1938 the now famous "aluminum pins" were instituted to replace the visual method of conclusion by a mathematical method...