Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock the alert sounded, calling all members of the ARP network to their posts. Exactly 30 minutes later the final signal sent all civilians to shelters. The actual test lasted until 10:50 o'clock, when the all-clear blew...
There have been small changes. Multiplied in hundreds of plants, they are invaluable. Last week a telegram for Knudsen ticked in to the War Department's Signal Office. It was from Nash-Kelvinator, now making airplane propellers: "Final production for July exceeded by more than 50% the figure for any previous month. This is a new high, a tribute to 'Knudsen month' inaugurated by your recent visit. Kindest personal regards...
Japanese territory. The enemy was off the field at Hankow down the Yangtze. At signal poles on Chungking's heights, civilians saw an old, familiar signal: yellow triangular lanterns, which told them that the enemy was on the wing...
Plans to distribute college physicists effectively between the services and industrial research are almost completely non-existent. Although high-frequency men can enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve, no provision has been made for other science concentrators who must fill the many semitechnical jobs in both combatant and noncombatant fields. Badly needed in industrial and government laboratories, even the cream of the electronics crop is at a loss for a clear-cut route to these jobs and the resulting uncertainty has seriously curtailed the available supply of these vital...
...given no assurance that they will end up farther east than Ireland. Nor is there a uniform draft policy, a centralized procurement office, or a government-sponsored training program. The Navy has its own school, and the F.B.I., Marine Corps, Army Air Corps, Army Intelligence, and Army Signal Corps all make individual sporadic requests for outstanding students. In Russian the complete chaos is even more evident. The Navy has asked for a few men but usually students have to try to find their own positions. Since students lack any assurance that they will ever have a chance to use their...