Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric motor. The bomb bays were opening. I looked at the double row of little lights, numbered from one to twelve, like lights on an elevator. They were still shining brightly. The bombs had not yet been released. Haynes dipped the plane up and down, giving the signal to those behind us to attack...
Veteran Hollywood Producer Hal Roach was ordered to active duty as a major in the photographic division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps...
Trust-busting Thurman Arnold, who for months has sought to crack down on the Associated Press, last week got the go-ahead signal. Attorney General Francis Biddle agreed to let him prosecute A.P., the world's biggest cooperative news-gathering agency, as an alleged combination in restraint of free commerce in the news...
...A.E.F. now in Britain could bear little resemblance in organization and distribution of fighting units to the A.E.F. that will jump off when the second front is launched. The big emphasis now had to be on troops that pave the way for a drive: Quartermaster, Engineer and Signal Corps outfits, housekeeping units for the Air Forces. Some combat units were on hand. But the bulk of the A.E.F.'s striking power would come later...
That was the only way that Private Edward Leonski, 24-year-old New York grocery-boy-draftee with the U.S. Signal Corps in Australia, knew how to defend himself. It was not enough to convince a medical board of two Army physicians and an Australian alienist. They declared that Leonski was sane and always had been. Last week an Army tribunal, sitting in Melbourne, sentenced him to be hanged...