Word: undergrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radio & TV, which get almost daily insults from some direction, last week suffered two open assaults and one cryptic, underground attack...
Before Radiologist Quick can use the prize, Roosevelt will have to build a machine to handle it. Plans, already drawn by Physicist Gioacchino Failla, call for a derrick-like supporting apparatus in an underground chamber and a 3½-ton bucket of lead, mercury and steel to hold the radium and direct its energy in converging rays on deep-seated cancers. When the machine is finished some time next year, the hospital will ship the empty bucket to Belgium and have it loaded. Then the radium will be brought back to Manhattan and put to work...
From Peking south to Canton, belligerent Red China shouted new watchwords: "Beware of burrowing! Beware of air raids!" Burrowing meant the anti-Communist underground. Retaliatory U.N. air raids seemed a grim possibility in the Red mind; like prudent, undaunted soldiers, the aggressors in Peking were preparing for the worst...
...sharpest thorns in East Germany's Communist hide is a 14-month-old underground organization directed from West Berlin. The Investigating Committee of Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...
Friedenau keeps the ever-mounting score for future retribution, never stops telling the Reds about it. A constant flow of warnings from, his typewriter penetrates East Germany. Before the zone's rigged October election, the underground blanketed the countryside with posters and carefully documented pamphlets blasting Red nominees as crooks and stooges. Bald, professorial Lawyer Friedenau, whose black sideburns reach almost to his chin, boasts that as a result of underground activity 70% of East zone finance offices recently refused to enforce Communist directives expropriating business enterprises...