Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...
During the war, he served with the Signal Corps in the Pacific. He returned to Chicago in 1945 and his expert reporting has been the back ground material for such diversified cover stories as Harold Stassen (Aug. 25, 1947), with whom he traveled 27,000 miles during the last Presidential campaign; F.B.I. Chief J. Edgar Hoover (Aug. 8, 1949), Defense Secretary Louis Johnson (June 6, 1949), Roy Roberts, of the Kansas City Star (April 12, 1948) Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (April 29 1946), and President George Albert Smith of the Mormon church (July 21, 1947). Last summer Bell covered...
Twenty minutes on the tackling dummies--the second time in as many days that Valpey has used the swinging targets to compensate for the enforced lack of scrimmage--and half an hour of spirited signal drill wound up the practice...
...scrimmage lasted less than an hour, with no man getting more than 20 minutes' worth of contact. It was preceded by dummy work and signal drill. The team ended with wind sprints before going...
...Signal honors came last week to Wilhelm Pieck, the little white-haired, pink-cheeked old (73) boss of German Communism. They came because, after the summer's respite, the Russians were opening a new, rougher phase in the battle for Germany...