Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universities students with automobiles often tie strips of inner tubing to the exhausts, which when the motor is suddenly speeded causes them to emit a familiar noise known as "the bird," "corporal's salute," or "Bronx cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat...
Some romance usually invests anyone who violates the social code in a grand manner, but no romance relieves the drab career of Walter Wolf, embezzler extraordinary. He stole upward of $2,000,000, perhaps as much as $4,000,000, and never benefited materially from a cent of it, nor did anyone else except the brokers. Wolf and his wife and daughter lived and dressed simply, their car was small, his recreation was gardening about his home, he attended the local Lutheran church. His superiors considered him the faithful plodding kind who might...
...skillfully conducted the negotiations in Brazil, beginning several months ago. Secrecy was essential. Under the saucy nose of Empire Salesman Edward of Wales, under the noses of Argentines and Russians with mountains of wheat for sale or barter, secrecy was kept, the two partners and their friends communicating in code. At the last moment came a scare: the Russians, having traded wheat for Italian fruit, had the same idea. They would dump the coffee they received into the U. S. market instead of marketing it in an orderly way. U. S. coffee men who had been taken into the secret...
...jobs for U. S. residents. Consuls were instructed to refuse passport visas to aliens who on arrival were likely to become public charges. If a would-be immigrant boasted of work awaiting him in the U. S., he was barred under the contract labor provision of the Immigration code. As a result of the President's orders, the Department of Labor last week announced that immigration for fiscal 1931 had dwindled to a trickle below the 100.000 mark for the first time since...
Howard W. Hawks (The Dawn Patrol, The Criminal Code...