Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Walter Winchell was master of ceremonies on the inauguration program of Brazil's new-and South America's first - 50,000-watt short-wave radio station. Owned and operated by the Government's Radio Nacional, it has the unabashed purpose of spreading Brazilian propaganda, news and culture over the world-an answer to Falangist broadcasts from Franco Spain...
...author of the article says: "Higher magnification requires shortest possible electron waves, hence higher voltage." As a matter of fact the wave length of electrons accelerated by say 15,000 volts is already roughly 50,000 times smaller than that of visible light. According to the information concerning magnification presented in the article the actual improvement gained by substituting electron waves for light is only 50-fold...
...Germans from the drives in the middle Don. At Rzhev and other points on the Moscow front the Red Army still battered at the Germans' interlaced strong points in a prolonged battle of attrition. Near Stalingrad U.P.'s Correspondent Henry Shapiro (see p. 40) discovered a mounting wave of confidence, along with evidence that the Russian armies were nearer defeat last September than the world then knew. Last week they held their lines on the Don's east bank. They slowly drove southward in an advance (toward Kotel-nikov) which tightened the grip on the Germans...
...Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost and helpless...
...tested family radios were turned on an average of five and a half hours a day. Only about 8% were used for less than an hour daily. Although short-wave tuning increased tenfold, it was still less than 1 % of the total...