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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...
...evening last week an operator at the Miami station of Tropical Radio swung his receiver to the 36-metre band. It was 10:38 p.m., and the static was as noisy as an applauding audience. But faintly the operator heard: SSS . . . SSS . . .-the code for submarine attack...
...committee also filed two minority reports : one proposing a flat code of fair administrative practice and placing greater stress on judicial review; the other recommending a wholly independent board (like the Board of Tax Appeals) with un restricted power to review all agency rulings...
Since 1933 Variety, U. S. weekly show chart, has annually made a survey of radio, awarded plaques to outstanding networks and stations. Last week Variety passed out its 1940 kudos. Plaques went to NBC for promoting "programs in the public interest," to the National Association of Broadcasters "for its code defending tolerance," to CBS for "stimulating local show management," to Young & Rubicam for effective radio copy, to Mexico City's XEW for leadership in show management...