Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the signal for New York's Republican state chairman, L. Judson Morhouse, to issue what amounted to a stinging challenge to Nixon. Urging the 96-vote New York delegation to go to Chicago uncommitted, Morhouse said: "We must recognize that the place for Rockefeller's broad appeal, reaching beyond party lines, is at the head of the ticket. Unless our national ticket this fall is headed by a candidate capable of the appeal that thrusts across and beyond Republican Party lines, we stand in serious danger of losing not only the presidency, but also the state...
...would have run aground had it been where the Cubans said it was. The sub Sea Poacher reported that it might have been shot at on May 6 more than five miles off Cuba, but the shots were so wild that the sub crew thought the tracer bullets were signal flares. Even so. the U.S. made a formal protest to Havana...
This was not surprising: the voice came from a five-watt transmitter 8,000,000 miles away from the earth. Britain's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank could still hear the signal, but the U.S. station at South Point. Hawaii had to strain its 60-ft. ear. So the time had finally come to shoot the works-by switching on the probe's 150-watt transmitter...
Space Technology Laboratories gave the first order, and up from Jodrell Bank flashed a preliminary signal. Traveling at the speed of light. 186.300 miles per second, it took 43 seconds to reach Pioneer...
After the U.S. Government broke up Standard's U.S. monopoly in 1911, Deterding invaded the U.S. market. He set up the Shell companies that later became Shell Oil, got the oil they needed when Shell discovered California's rich Signal Hill field. (Today Shell Oil, headed by President H.S.M. Burns, a Scotsman, is the most powerful of all Shell's subsidiaries; last week it reported 1959 sales of $1.8 billion, up 9% from last year.) After Deterding set up his U.S. plants, he made a shrewd peace treaty with Jersey Standard. Anxious to consolidate his gains...