Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases, and both use German Telefunken wireless compasses and direction-finders-among the best in the world...
...readers were in about the same case as the British Admiralty. Unlike his fellow captain Luckner's writings, Captain Nerger's book on his raiding exploits was not generally known outside Germany. The first account in English is by one of his prisoners. Roy Alexander, an Australian wireless operator, spent nine months in one of the two mine compartments which served as brig for the Wolfs sardined, polyglot prisoners (100 when he,arrived, 400 at the peak...
...drew freely on his imagination, particularly in respect to the escape of the crew on board the Ayesha. Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mikke's account in his book Ayesha relates that the landing force of approximately 56 men, sent ashore by Capt. Miller to destroy the wireless station on Keeling Island (English), did just that and was caught ashore when the cruiser Sidney engaged and sank the Emden. Contrary to your romantic "jungle hiding," the landing party which was, of course, now in command of the island, outfitted the schooner Ayesha (97 tons) and, in spite of warnings...
...Hitler. Hitherto personally muted since war began, Dr. Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn't it, Mr. Churchill? That was how it was carried out also and then!-then this...
...second wireless informed Captain Chelton of the warning, instructed him to search every cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...