Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intrigues have brought him few if any friends among France's naval aristocracy, which, by tradition at least, keeps its mind on warships. He has a wife, as retiring as the Admiral is not, and a son, Alain, who recently quit the Navy, where he had been a code officer, in favor of the insurance business. Social superiors of Darlan like to call attention to his French-bourgeois habit of wearing a wing collar, which has earned him the nickname of "The Tax Collector." But all this the Admiral can and does ignore. "I am a dur and have...
...Some code books have been issued or rewritten, but the job of recodifying Italian law is still unfinished. Mussolini has lately had more pressing problems...
...beginning in the advanced training program is a new course on the Morse Code, which meets every Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock in 201 Pierce Hall. Any member of the University may audit it free of charge...
Last week, in the exultant lull after finishing off Cyrenaica, in the expectant lull before the next job, whatever it was, the boys in the Army of the Nile thought of loved ones at home. For their benefit romantic Postmaster General William Shepherd Morrison announced a numbered code of love for Near East forces and their ladies. A cable of three phrases, plus signature and address, cost two shillings sixpence (50?). Said Postmaster General Morrison: "Every degree of affection is provided for. You pay your money and take your choice." Examples...
During the day the student pilots have an hour of instruction in flying, an hour in sending and receiving International Morse Code by radio, an hour on other ground-school work-getting acquainted with aircraft and engines, tinkering with the mechanism of a Browning .30-calibre machine gun which they have to learn to take apart and put together, naming 95 separate parts. The rest of the time until they are secured (released) for the day at 4:30, they spend working on the starting line, getting the ships off, gassing them every two hours, wiping them shiny again...