Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraternity house sometimes uses a double-doorbell system. Invited guests press the concealed one; the uninvited set off an alarm signal when they push the other. Another clubhouse is wired with trip cords; if an intruder steps on one, all the lights in the house go out. Still another keeps one brother bartending in the basement. In case of an inspection, the bartender is supposed to sweep his bottles into a suitcase and exit by a back door...
...Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC television transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes fixed on a TV screen...
...starting signal, the highly-strung athletes will simultaneously begin to run, to roll their hoops, and to squeal. The race ends at the Chapel, where the winner will receive a wreath...
...surplus set was quickly identified as an I.F.F. transmitter (Identification, Friend or Foe), a highly secret wartime device used by ships and planes for broadcasting an identification signal. If the plane crashed, the "Destructor" exploded, making a molten mass of the wiring and preventing the enemy from reproducing either the wiring or the identification signal...
...Chicago's Dow Theorist Justin F. Barbour: "The market pattern . . . suggests that 1949 will prove to be a 'Down' year." Then he hedged his remarks. If the market does not break decisively through its low point of last November, he said, it will be a Dow signal that there may be "an important rise." In any case, "a normal bull market is unlikely . . . until all the basic industries are confronted with . . . competitive conditions...