Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They man the pleasure cruisers which have been turned over to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, fill out depleted crews of regular Coast Guard cutters, squeegee paint, scrub decks, inspect buoys, board incoming merchantmen and seal their radios, run signal lights, patrol docks and beaches. In their idle time between their twelve-hour-a-week duty and their regular civilian jobs, the hottest zealots study seamanship, gunnery and navigation...
Married. Evelyn Nelson, baby-voiced songstress "Wee Bonnie Baker" (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!); and First Lieut. John Morse, of the Army's Signal Corps; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Married. Frances Rose Shore (synco-patress "Dinah Shore"), 26; and Signal Corps Corporal George Montgomery, 27, peacetime cinemactor (Bomber's Moon), onetime Montana cowboy; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
While the chiefs of other branches of the War Department had their heads turned, Air Forces' boss, General Henry H. Arnold, last week established full control over the service branches which have operated with but not under his formal command. Heretofore such branches as quartermaster, communications and signal corps have been composed mostly of men on loan to the airmen...
...Army now uses more radio equipment than was manufactured for the entire nation in peacetime. The Signal Corps, which operates it, has more men than Napoleon's whole force at Waterloo. Aside from radar, electronics is one of the most versatile developments of World War II. In industry, electronic tubes perform such diversified jobs as shutting off the air in a Bessemer furnace when the molten steel reaches exactly the right white-hot brilliance, tempering shell casings to toughen them, examining all sorts of materials for hidden flaws...