Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censorship. Under the rules concocted by the Alaska Defense Command, no news of their front-yard Battle of the Aleutians was printed for Alaskans until 48 hours after it appeared in the States. When Vice President Wallace had spoken of the imminent danger of an attack on Alaska, Army Signal Corps censors at Seattle refused to let the Alaskan press report...
Eventually Private Shearer got the equipment, persuaded ("for two cokes, a girl's phone number and my new black tie") three signal corps men to hook it up. The great hour and the great man arrived. Kaltenborn stalked to the microphone...
With the perils of registration overcome, and the first week of academic work passed, two dances and two outings this weekend signal the opening of the Summer School social season, a program of outings, teas, dances and beach parties which highlight each weekend and enable students to get acquainted...
...Tobe—who looks like a small version of Jimmy Durante, with milder features but just as frenzied a manner—"blood money came along." Tanks, jeeps, etc., with two-way radios had to have noise filters, and the ones available elsewhere were bulky and expensive. Tobe barged into the Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ. early in 1940 to try for some business. More to get rid of him than anything else, the Major in charge gave him the toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered useless...
Norman M. Neagle of Belmont was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Reserve, Certificates of course completion in field artillery training were presented to: George I. Connolly, Jr., Arlington; Roger C. Henselman, Medford, Ohio; William W. Jones, Huntington, W. Va.; John C. Millard, Staten Island, N. Y.; Eugeno J. Reilly, Jamaica Plain; George L. Snow, 2d, Winchester; Bayard C. Stone, Eikins Park, Pa.; and John E. Tully, West Roxbury. Charles P. Berdell, 3d, of New York City received a certificate of course completion and will be commissioned later as a Second Lientenant in the Chemical Whemical Warfar Reserve...