Word: micro
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Along with the same scholarly material, the Library is also storing in Central Europe files of newspapers, which normally would be photographed at the Library on micro-films. In 1938, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Library began micro-film files of some thirty-five newspapers in all parts of the world. The film records are available at cost to other libraries desiring them...
...first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...generally are 1939 all over again in theme, but some are new in detail. Typical changes: General Motors put more local, authentic scenery in its vast Futurama; Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...