Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unearthed a 17th-Century Italian book beneath the floor of a deserted shack. Just to have it appraised, he took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
...letter disclosed the breaking of the code-"Hut it was of the highest importance, said Marshall, that the Japanese be kept from realizing it." Possession of the code secret gave the U.S. an enormous advantage, saved many U.S. lives...
Industrially, too, the atomic bomb may save more money than it cost ($2,000,-000,000). A. L. Baker of the Kellex Corp. of Oak Ridge (code name: Dogpatch), Tenn. last week issued an impressive list of non-atomic advances made while the bomb was in production. Among them...
...that there may be no further nonsense, MacArthur followed up with a tough ten-point code for the press. In effect, it ordered the Japs to tell the truth, at the same time tell no truth that would hurt the U.S. Some rules...
...their King Log, Will H. Hays. He was called "The Speechless Spokesman" be cause, as the industry's Washington representative, he often seemed to be in effectual. His Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (The Hays Office) also disliked him because he administered the motion picture code with prim inflexibility. So last week Czar Hays finally abdicated...