Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the doors were locked the SS men began to work with furious speed. First they nailed army blankets over every window. Then they hauled up huge cans of highly inflammable acetate. The 13 guards were all ready, armed with every weapon in their bursting arsenals. At a signal all sprang into action...
...easily as a child steers its bicycle. The device, called a "formation stick," has an arm rest and a pistol-gripped lever, which can be flicked in any direction by a finger touch. Electronics does the rest : the stick's motion is converted into an amplified electrical signal which operates the motors which operate the plane's control surfaces...
Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible...
...Plans. In San Francisco, waiting out the war and trying to keep track of her family, is Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner,* who was born Adele Blanc, in New Orleans, but moved to Kentucky "when she was a quadruped." Her elder son, Simon Bolivar III, is a captain in the Signal Corps in France, her younger son, William Claiborne, a plebe at West Point. The daughter, Mary, is studying at the University of California...
...when auto production will start, WPBoss Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until...