Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elevator signal buzzed in International House, the massive 13-story lodging place built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for foreign students. The elevator man had a blind right eye, but as he stopped the car he turned to look at his lone passenger. She was Valsa Anna Matthai, 21, a pretty Indian girl from Bombay, a Columbia University student. She was not wearing the Indian sari pulled over her hair, but a bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes...
Uncomfortably Close. Tokyo Rose's voice is wafted over the Aleutians and the South Pacific on a stronger, clearer signal than any provided by U.S. radio. She can usually be heard around 8 p.m. daily, Australian time, short or medium wave, on a 65-minute show designed for U.S. armed forces in the South Pacific. Her specialties, assisted by a male announcer who sounds not unlike Elmer Davis, are News from the American Home Front and the jazzical Zero Hour. News purports to be a rehash of U.S. domestic broadcasts. It is angled, but has some basis in fact...
Through the House of Commons' corridors rang the jingling bells that signal a "Division" (voting lineup). In chattering, uneasy groups, under the eyes of party whips, M.P.'s filed from the House toward the two "lobbies" (voting rooms). There they flowed through the Aye or No doors, gave their votes, passed back to the House. When all were reassembled, they turned anxious eyes toward the main entrance. There, by old custom, the voting tellers for the winning side enter first...
...Negro Soldier (U.S. Army Signal Corps). This short moving picture has been two years in the making. The War Department authorized the film, but Lieut. Paul Vogel, the chief cameraman, had to do his job with old cameras which he pilfered (for the occasion) from Universal. During the shooting of one snowy sequence these tired machines froze up and he had to use an Eyemo...
...Zanesville awoke to a sudden newspaper fight. Jones was building a plant to "run the Litticks out of town." The late William 0. Littick and his two sons had long had a monopoly in the morning Times Recorder (circ. 19,957), the evening Signal (circ. 6,974) and the Sunday Times-Signal (circ. 11,863). The Litticks fought back by taking up United Press and International News Service, along with their Associated Press membership. But until lately, when his News got U.P., Jones managed with Transradio News alone. He carried on a running battle in type. He has lost...