Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bomb will be torn to pieces, and the pieces thrown for hundreds of yards. A brick wall is not merely knocked down. It is shattered into a hail of projectiles which may kill people at a great distance. At a still greater distance the blast is translated into a wave of sound, but a sound like that of the last trumpet which literally flattens out everything in front of it. ... It is the last sound that many people ever hear, even if they are not killed, because their eardrums are burst in and they are deafened for life. It occasionally...
...radio permit nation to shout at nation, but radio can also shout a neighbor down. Germany reported a mystery station which blanketed the European air with static during Chancellor Hitler's Nürnberg speech. Similar reports charged German stations with sending out code signals on the Prague wave length to obliterate Premier Hodza's speech. In Germany, listening to Moscow's broadcasts has long been a criminal offense...
Like North Americans, South Americans listen to long-wave broadcasts from local stations. They laugh at U. S. attempts to play tangos, but are interested in every thing President Roosevelt has to say, while baffled by reports of Presidential fishing trips. Their own commercial radio stations give them entertainment which is almost 100% sponsored, do not pretend to any interest in furnishing free entertainment education. Advertisements are liberally inserted between musical numbers, for a higher fee between the announcement of a piece of music and its performance. South American airtime is sold not so much by hours, as by minutes...
...radio did nothing to minimize the European crisis, however, in the U. S. the networks did a bang-up job of bringing the throbbing reality of it to listeners. NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters. The announcement of the Czech reply to the Chamberlain-Daladier ultimatum was read to CBS listeners by Maurice Hindus eleven minutes before any other U. S. agency got the news. NBC and CBS stayed on the air all night...
...discussions of the American nations below the equator have stressed the point that they are blanketed with Italian and German short-wave propaganda, that the U. S. should fight propaganda with propaganda. Observer Kostelanetz verified the activity of totalitarian shortwavers, but pricked the balloon of their importance by reporting that short-wave listening in South America, even more than in the U. S., is an exacting hobby, available to relatively few people, of interest to even fewer. Said he: "In all of Brazil [pop. 47,795,000] there are only 420,000 radio sets, only 15% of them equipped...