Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day in Chungking a new Sino-British treaty was signed. Sealed with red wax and red, white & blue ribbons, it corresponded in all major respects to that signed in Washington. Cabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "This is to me a signal proof of solidarity among the United Nations...
...sixth still consists of the thin sprinkling of pros from the Regular Army (14,659 officers in 1938) and a wartime addition of specialists appointed from civilian life to Engineers, Ordnance, Signal Corps, and other technical branches...
...raised (to a height of 5 ft. 6 in.) in Brookline, Mass. He studied civil engineering at M.I.T., but left after three years to become an instrument man for Quebec & Saguenay Railroad. Then he became a civil engineer and a contractor. In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Signal Corps as a private. He learned to fly under Bert Acosta, who was later to achieve fame as a transatlantic pilot. His first three landings were all dead stick, but he was notably successful once he got to France. Twice he was shot down. He was credited with two German planes...
...responsibility of winning the strike, but he is in no small measure to blame for the interruption in the anthracite fields. The miners have long been restive under the union chief's iron rule. The recent dues increase forced on union members was widely recognized as the storm signal that might herald an open break...
...finding increasing opportunities in the war effort: >Blind, 23-year-old Byron H. Webb of Chicago was graduated from De Paul University last month, wanted to fight the Axis somehow. He was told of various relatively nonessential jobs he could do. Dissatisfied, he thought hard, sold himself to the Signal Corps. His job: teaching Signal Corps men to make emergency radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons, screws...