Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swiftly, silently save for an occasional radio signal, the latest and greatest Soviet space vehicle continued speeding toward Venus...
Pravda also shed some light on how Venusnik was separated from the booster that lifted it piggyback into space. At a predetermined point on orbit around the earth, when the satellite reached a great speed, the booster was separated-whether automatically or by radio signal from earth, the Soviets did not say. The booster stayed on orbit, while Venusnik hurtled on alone. As it broke away from the earth's gravitation, it moved into a solar orbit at 61,000 m.p.h...
During the week, traders and brokers waited suspensefully for the rail average, the other important signal to Dow theorists, to confirm a bull market trend by piercing its previous high of 146.56 reached last March. The rails came tantalizingly close to doing just that-only to fall back to 144.84 at week's end. If the rails do not go through, then the Dow theorists argue that the market is in for trouble. As for the utilities, which are not included in the Dow theory, they have been rising steadily for months under the buying of cautious investors seeking...
...made a wheels-down approach, but went round again, possibly because a Caravelle jet was taking off. On his second turn, breasting the flat fields near by at 500 ft., he increased his speed, wrapped the giant 707 into an almost vertical bank. Brussels tower flashed the emergency signal, and fire trucks and ambulances began rolling down the landing strip...
According to an emergency plan, Greely, a veteran officer of the U.S. Signal Corps who had proved his endurance and skill during service in the American West, headed south in a steam launch and three smaller boats. The launch got wedged in the ice, two of the boats were abandoned, and the desperate men barely made it across the ice pack to Cape Sabine as winter and the polar night descended. In the minds of all were the fates of two previous expeditions-those of U.S. Lieut. Commander George De Long and Britain's Sir John Franklin, which ended...