Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Marshall wrote out a warning anyway, called Admiral Stark again to read it. Stark decided on second thought that the warning might as well go to Navy commanders as well. General Marshall sent it on to the Signal Corps, which promised, according to General Miles, that it would be delivered in 20 minutes. It was then 11:50 a.m.; the attack was one hour and ten minutes away...
...these messages were not decoded in time. The Signal Corps's "Magic" project, which held the secret of the Jap code, was short of men and facilities. General Miles "assured" himself that the work was being done as fast as possible under the circumstances, decided that there his responsibility ended...
...Lost Signal. Some of the other questions about the sinking of the Indianapolis are beyond the scope of the present court, may be answered later. It is known that her estimated arrival time at Leyte was sent out by radio from Guam. But was it ever received at Leyte, and if so, by whom? Were Leyte port authorities negligent in not reporting her overdue? Were there defects in the air searches (flown from three nearby bases) which failed to detect the cruiser's giant oil slick for three days after she sank...
Married. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, fiftyish flapper with an apparently perpetual patent of nubility; and Anthony Easton, fortyish, wealthy, British-born inventor (automatic radio distress signal); she for the fifth time (and last, she said), he for the second; in Manhattan...
...issue, in Conant's eyes, was the improvement of relations between the U.S. and Russia. He asked that "an interchange of scientists and scientific information should take place ... a welcome signal of the opening of the road of mutual understanding between ourselves and Russia...