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Astatic Microphone Laboratory, Inc. (of Youngstown, Ohio) was puzzled when Du Pont gave it orders, with a high Government priority, for numbers of sensitive phonograph pickups. Astatic Microphone was still more surprised to find out that Du Pont engineers were putting the phonograph needles not on phonograph records but against...
During the war's early days he reflected: "Embattled nations must get at each other in a pitchy midnight. . . . Even warfare is not what it was. Its glory is dirty. When a vast confusion is unintelligible in a prolonged and almost impenetrable darkness, it is difficult to add a...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops...
The spirit of the first half of the volume is beautifully suggested by its French title, Cette Grande Lueur a L'Est (which the translator insipidly renders into Promise of Dawn). The young politician Jerphanion compares the magnetism of the Soviets with that of Verdun six years before: "There...
This ambiguous light flickers on the faces of Remains' characters as they move in the darkness of a post-war Paris from which, for them, security and human hope have vanished. Sampeyre, who represents the finest traditions of 19th-Century liberalism, no longer feels at ease in talking with...