Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispatches poured in by cable, wireless telephone and telegraph, from Berlin, London and Paris. Despite censorship, despite official obfuscation, the picture was reason ably complete...
...connected by theorems and syntheses which cover more & more phenomena, so that the basic statements need be fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found to be energy of molecular motion; and when light, X-rays, gamma rays, wireless waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation were all disclosed as electromagnetic vibrations. At the pyramid's apex there should be a master synthesis embracing all physical phenomena...
Journalist Seidenfaden used his head. He landed in Oslo, headed for the nearest wireless office, and put his news on the air. A few hours later he escaped to Stockholm. His dispatch was the first definite information that the German fleet was moving on Norway. Luck, enterprise and brains, the three ingredients of newspaper beats, last week had given Erik Seidenfaden the first beat of the new war in the north. Mysterious Invasion...
...Verner Forchammer flashed the same news by cable to Hearst's International News Service. Then the Danish wireless fell abruptly silent, Danish cables went dead. Nazi soldiers had occupied Copenhagen...
...afternoon last week, at latitude 22:10 North, longitude 51:28 West-1,900 miles east of Havana, Cuba, on the regular trade route from Barbados to England-the wireless operator of the British tanker El Ciervo began tapping out an alarm...