Word: distress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less heroic than the captains who go down with their ships are the radio and wireless operators who stand by their instruments to the last, tapping out distress signals. There is always the chance that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held...
William S. Thompson, Western Union telegraph operator, last week announced the invention of a device that will transmit distress sig- nals (or any other messages) automatically, thus releasing the oper- ator from his duty of signaling for help even while the ship sinks. It can be used on airplanes as well...
Four ocean liners wheeled from their courses to comb the estimated spot where Old Glory radioed distress. It was a foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
...learn with great distress of the accident resulting in the loss of so many gallant officers and men and the sinking of the Warabi...
...being his pals. The Senator said that farmers were still determined on the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill or its equivalent; that the Republican tariff was not doing the western farmer any good; that it took more than one good year to alleviate farm distress. Most significant, he said that candidates for South Dakota's endorsement in the presidential primaries would be judged in the light of their position on the McNary-Haugen bill...