Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler who brought the long latent Chamberlain-Eden quarrel to a crisis. The action of the Fuhrer fortnight ago, after cracking down on German Army leaders, of appointing as his Foreign Secretary dynamic, scheming, adventurous Joachim von Ribbentrop, was taken by the English as a storm signal for Europe, especially since last week Ribbentrop was closeted with the Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon...
...intended to ride in mother plane Maia it is equipped as an Empire flying boat, has seats for 16. Fastened together the two planes, all eight engines (5,200 h.p.) roaring, take off. In command is the pilot of Maia, connected by telephone with the pilot of Mercury. On signal both pilots unlock the elaborate hooking device-Mercury soars off with its half-ton load; Maia returns to its base...
...over a month, enough shiny brass blank cartridges for a 101-gun salute have been piled by the saluting batteries of every Dutch army post from Amsterdam to Bali. They were to signal that Crown Princess Juliana had given the House of Orange its first male heir in generations. Last week the batteries finally boomed out but the Government saved 50 shells from each, for like her mother and grandmother before her, Crown Princess Juliana's first baby was a 51-gun, blue-eyed, fair-haired girl...
...lacking in coherence. Here and there are pictorial groupings, interesting enough in themselves, but poorly related in the general clutter of hyper-religious abracadabra and the familiar hocus-pocus of third-rate melodrama. The mere mention of Kabala brings on thunder-and-lightning overtones; a departing soul is the signal for banging casements, flickering candles, fluttering curtains. Valiantly pushing its way through is a slender story of a boy (L. Libgold) and a girl (Lili Liliana) promised to each other at birth, driven to desperation when they are parted. The boy invokes Satan and goes to destruction; the girl invites...
...into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...