Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visited his namesake vessel, a former U.S. four-stack destroyer, and promised to come aboard again if the Churchill ever sank a U-boat. The destroyer's crew did not forget. One night last June, as the Churchill patrolled off Venezuela, a dark shape loomed ahead. The battle signal sounded. Men sprang to action stations. The Churchill swerved, tried to ram the foe. Luckily, she missed. What looked like a hulking U-boat turned out to be tiny Lasola Island, ten feet high, 200 feet long...
...word that a ship had been sunk during the night. I was on the signal tower when we reached the spot, just as dawn was lighting the scene...
...Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered yet another Saroyan precedent, refused to utter a word for publication...
...Signal-Caller. But this is more than a big aircraft merger-it is the successful conclusion of one of the boldest financial plans since the merger-crazy '20s. The planner: resourceful Victor Emanuel, a fast-moving financial quarterback who bosses the rambling Aviation Corp. The plan: expand Aviation Corp. from an overweight aviation holding company into a General Motors...
...stages of the blackout manifested clock-like precision and cooperation between defense authorities and civilians, but confusion was evident in the minds of both regarding return to normal. As a result of the misinterpretations of directions, House lights were popping on and off during the interval between the blue signal and the all-clear...