Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps one of the most rewarding features of THE MARCH OF TIME Forum Edition is its increasing contribution to a relatively new and fast growing information medium. When they were first launched, the films were directed to an audience that had access to only some 30,000 16 mm. projectors. Now, through the nation's 350 visual education dealers, the Forum films are distributed to owners and renters of over 100,000 projectors...
Before the conference policy committee, the U.S. delegation introduced a resolution providing that 1) everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought and expression, 2) newsmen shall have the "widest possible access to sources of information" and be permitted to transmit copy without "discriminatory limitations" and 3) governments shall make "a diversity of news and opinion available to the people...
Next day, 500 policemen patrolled the block around the Stock Exchange and there was no more trouble. The American Civil Liberties Union deplored the "lie-down," saying: "By completely denying the right of access to and from the ... Stock Exchange, the pickets abused their lawful right to picket." But it also found "little or no justification for the club-wielding tactics of the police...
...copy in an inexpensive little throwaway called Motion Picture Stories was supplied free by the studios. In the years before censorship, cinemag pages were triple-dipped in juicy Hollywood scandal. But in the early '303 the tattlers were forcibly tongue-tied; the studios threatened to deny them access to the stars. Says one publisher: "We were licked. Without Jean Harlow stories alone, we'd have lost 10% of our circulation...
...Area That Counts. Even if Western Europe can be kept out of Communist hands (and that is a bold assumption), Red control of Italy would mean that Russian air and submarine power would be able to dispute U.S. access to North Africa, Turkey, Syria (see map). These are precisely the areas which the U.S. would need to mount an air attack on Russia if war came. Deeper bases in Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and Kenya would be menaced from a Communist Italy...