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Last week Portland's afternoon quiet was abruptly shattered. From Dr. Paul J. Raver, the brisk administrator of Bonneville Dam, came the biggest news the Northwest has had in many a noontime. Aluminum Co. of America had contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant on the Columbia River...
Out of Joe Kennedy's overstuffed briefcase came for Mr. Roosevelt's inspection stacks of reports "too confidential for the cables." In them, some said, was a basis for a U. S. move toward international peace. Stuff & guff, said others; in the Kennedy dossiers was proof there will...
French editors are especially chagrined because they cannot publish photographs taken under the eyes of French military authorities at the front. The same pictures appear in British journals which are read in France; but they cannot be transmitted to any neutral country. Telegrams and cables, no matter where they originate...
From the files of the Seiznick studies, producers, the exhibit has many original manuscripts, letters and cables showing the routine of script-writing and revisions, satisfying the censors.
There are two main methods of minesweeping: 1) towing a serrated cable between two ships, which cuts mine cables or ropes when engaged, 2) a single ship towing two cables held away from its bow and deep in the water by "paravanes" (torpedo-shaped bodies with wings and pontoons and...