Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flashing an all-out green signal, President Conant last night told his Sanders Theatre audience that the demand for speed is desperate and "for young men the needs of the armed services now overshadow all other considerations...
This was the signal for a more than routine uproar. Columnists, Congressmen and Otter-lovers wanted to know why. A Senate investigating committee took a look, trumpeted: the vessel had not had a full and fair trial; Navy and Maritime Commission officials (Powell, Rear Admiral Emory Land) had been hostile to the sponsors and their idea; obstacles had been deliberately put in the way. Mrs. Walter Lippmann and her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt carried on a vigorous backstage campaign. Mrs. Lippmann's husband thundered that the Maritime Commission was waterlogged with ancient prejudices. "What happened to the Sea Otter...
...Metallic silver is used in airplane motors as a dissipator of heat. It provides corrosion-resisting contacts in Signal Corps and other electrical apparatus...
Culver, a radio expert who was an Army Signal Corps major in World War I; Botanist Harvey E. Stork, an aerial photographer in that war; Dean Lindsey Blayney, a colonel on General Pershing's staff...
Once, putting to sea at dusk, they were spotted by a German priest; soon afterward, signal fires bloomed on the hills around them. Several times they fled from islands when reports were relayed that a Jap destroyer was approaching. They gave it the slip, only to be followed by another enemy ship. Quick dodges through small islands saved them. Their luck held as they scooted past Jap bombing bases. Darkness saved them from an auxiliary cruiser...