Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cargo ship's skipper ordered Sparks to relay the S. O. S. Neither the captain, the first officer nor Sparks saw anything suspicious about the signal reporting a ship in distress some 30 miles distant in the South Atlantic. Soon night closed down over the unruffled sea and the third officer spotted lights about three miles away. Swiftly the lights grew closer to starboard. At three-quarters of a mile the approaching ship opened fire. Shells from 8-in. guns tore into the cargo vessel, quickly putting its deck guns out of action. Torpedoes from the deck tubes...
LIEUT. WALTER H. DERNBERGER Signal Corps Boston, Mass...
Kaiser was a proven miracle worker on great dams, in his great shipbuilding yards. Yet the Army & Navy refused to see an ounce of sense in his new idea. For two weeks he had to fight the stubborn-nest opposition. Even after he won a go-ahead signal from Production Boss Donald Nelson (TIME, Aug. 17), the Army & Navy still scoffed...
...with or without experience), dramatic script writers, arrangers of classical and swing programs, interviewers, and general program organizers. Every man will be taught whatever he cares to learn, particularly if his interests lie along the lines of the sort of technical work which will be of use in Army signal corps...
Thus Kaiser emerged from his nine-day whirlwind tour of Washington with a signal victory, gained only after bitterest battle with all the it-can't-be-done experts (TIME, Aug. 10). He had to convince Nelson, Nelson's advisers, two Senate committees; he had to beat down the Army & Navy, which still do not see where he can get the materials. But behind him he had the pressure of an enthusiastic public opinion...