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Word: wiring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand jury in Chicago last week took a new way to charge him and associates with an old crime. By coding, printing and transmitting horse-race entries, odds, results to bookies, said the jurors, an Annenberg printing house and his Nationwide News Service conducted a lottery by interstate wire and the U. S. mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Smashing this barbed-wire entanglement of reactions came headlines like an artillery barrage-planes over Warsaw, French soldiers assaulting the West Wall, the Athenia torpedoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ultimate Issue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Defeat. Vibrant as a piano wire, Europe resounded with each blow anywhere upon it. Defeat in Poland meant Policy in Moscow; neutrality in Rome built fortifications in Rumania. As the great organizations of war collided last week, as the spokesmen of belligerents and neutrals said what they had to say, one fact stood out: Germany had lost the war of nerves that had raged through the pre-War summer. No Polish ally backed down. Isolated Germany began the fighting. No friend moved to aid her in the 26 countries of Europe, and although a swift Polish victory could draw them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ultimate Issue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Emotionally most of the northern neutrals sympathized with the Allies. In Stockholm sentiment was frankly pro-British. The Netherlands, fearful of Germany, prayed, guarded its frontiers, laid in food supplies, was ready to flood the lowlands if the worst came. (Germany, also fearful, had electrified the barbed wire on its side of the frontier to catch would-be deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Determined Band | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...exporters await anxiously how and whether the Neutrality Act will be applied. Strict enforcement of the Act would prevent exports in vessels of any nationality of arms, ammunition or implements of war for belligerent states- would put a crimp in present foreign commitments outstanding. Just under the wire last week a British steamer slipped out of San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) with twenty-five Lockheed bombers aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Cargo Jam? | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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