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...growing confidence, plugged the V campaign. He urged the people of the occupied countries to mark the letter everywhere, even on the backs of German officers. According to reports that leaked out in a few places, they actually did. "He told people how to tap it out in Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening "fate-knocks...
...Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that he is at last flying - he must bone up for many a long, hot and sleepy hour on the rudiments of engines, aerodynamics, aerology, gunnery, navigation, the dit-dit-dahs of radio code...
Their sinister game, said G-Man Hoover, was snitching important national defense secrets and transmitting them to a "foreign power." Short-wave radio messages, courier service via Clipper planes, code messages in secret ink, intricate financing of conspiracies-they used them all. Their clearing house: the Little Casino...
...among decent professions see these present low-minded sexologists replaced by high-minded psychologists? As one advertising artist once told me, the usual request is 'Make the breasts larger, the fanny bigger, and show more legs.' Other terms I would have to send by express or in code...
...Yorker corridors crawled with rumors of Federal enforcement. Next month the credit men will meet again, try to remold their resolution into a practical operating code...