Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby's crib. Reason: they had spent $5,000,000 to build a "foolproof" central traffic control system (CTC). A dispatcher could keep such close tabs on train movements that it was "absolutely impossible for two trains to come together unless an engineer deliberately runs through a signal...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...
Until Jan. 10, 1946, scientists had been experimentally limited to the earth and to a thin shell of air around it. Last week, the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced a scientific milestone: on Jan. 10 (and several times since), its radar at Belmar, N.J. had sent a message to the moon and got an answering echo. Man had finally reached beyond his own planet...
...discussion of college traditions would not even be acceptable without some mention of John B. G. Rinehart '00, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. For nearly half a century, the cry of "Rinehart" has been the signal for a general uprising of the student population and, perhaps, a subsequent march on Radcliffe. It is the old spring riot call, and has seldom gone unanswered...
Most of the Russians stayed on the train, kept the curtains drawn. But Colonel General Shtykov, head of the delegation, went with his immediate aides to the Chosen Hotel. There a teetotaling young U.S. Signal Corps lieutenant, detailed as manager of the hotel, was driven to drink for the first time in his life by the Russians' policy of ordering and then refusing meals and other services. The lobby telephone disappeared, General Shtykov had to have it. The Russians ordered all cars cleared out of the hotel garage to make room for General Shtykov's cars; the harried...