Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signal its significant shift toward an easier credit policy, the Federal Reserve Board last week made a headline-catching move. It cut the cost of loans to member banks by approving a drop in the discount rate to 3½% from 4% for its district banks in Philadelphia and San Francisco. Such cuts are usually followed by similar cuts at the rest of the twelve Federal Reserve district banks...
...right speed and angle. To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines-one firing forward and the other backward. The backward-pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters on the right course, ease them into moon orbit at a speed of 5.000 ft. per sec. If the first...
...which any number may play. When the bell sounded for the showdown session, 200 opposition Deputies massed outside the office of wispy Speaker Ichiro Kiyose, 76, blocking the corridor so solidly that he could not get out to call the session to order. Kiyose called the police. On signal, 500 cops entered, picked up the Socialists and carried them kicking and struggling from Kiyose's door. The Speaker made a run for the chamber only to be met there by more angry Socialist Deputies, who grabbed him round the back and half-throttled him. Diet guards pulled him free...
Then a second signal commanded the probe to send full current through the tubes. Both tests were successful, a fact reported to earth by the barely audible voice of the five-watt transmitter...
...half-power current through the filaments of the 150-watt transmitter. Then it called for full-power current. Then it gave the payoff order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left the earth, the signal strength from Pioneer V increased twentyfold. The big boy was on the line, calling loud and clear from Pioneer V as the probe continued on its lonely journey...