… Liberation Army or Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito of the Communist Party, was swiftly rising to prominence. Allied strategists knew little of Tito. It was said he had been left wounded on a battlefield in 1917 and captured by the Russians. There he was trained as a Communist leader and sent to France during the Spanish Civil …

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… having financial difficulties and needs my help. So don't come back until you have delivered that envelope." Once … her to put the Do Not Disturb sign on his door to keep visitors away, and not to bother cleaning. The sign remained … 7, 1943, and gave his opinion that the cause of death had been coronary thrombosis. Tesla had died in his sleep, and …
… the important new trade mission, sat Swezey. Dr. Rado had been too ill to attend as an honorary pallbearer. Figures … States three Nobel prizewinners in physics, Millikan, Compton, and James Franck, joined in a eulogy to the …
… nothing else was removed. The safe was closed under a new combination, which combination was in Kosanović's exclusive possession. On … It was added to about thirty barrels and bundles that had been there since about 1934, and these too were sealed under …
… is standing; power is transmitted solely with a traveling component. Boundary layer propagation, i.e., the mode of … to the east of his station. The results would have been the same on his instruments. Dr. Wait, formerly senior …
… In 1889, at the company’s factory in Pittsburgh, Nikola Tesla perfected the single-phase induction motor and designed an entire system with a … The firm required this frequency because it had already been constructing transformers for lighting at that rate. …
… diagnosis of schizophrenia, and therapy or drugs might have been prescribed-perhaps to "cure" the very fountain of his …
… from the gas monopolies. He had beaten down the gas companies with his natural gift for propaganda, putting out … oppression" in which workers' health allegedly had been "injured" by gas heat or their vision damaged by … at last the job was done, he went to his boss to report complete success and, not incidentally, to ask when he might …
… the industrialist. "Mr. Westinghouse,” he said, “you have been my friend, you believed in me when others had no faith; … you have stood by me as a friend.... You will save your company so that you can develop my inventions. Here is your … 1897 states that Tesla was paid $216,600 for outright purchase of his patents at this point to avoid the payment of …
… inventor also had hopes that electrical anaesthesia might become possible. And he proposed burying high-voltage wires in … motors of the AC system and twelve generators of the two-phase type that had been built especially for distributing light and power. To …