Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflamed area on the arm was no more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more than 1,300 others, 25 gave a danger-signal reaction. One of these, a soldier suspecting venereal disease, ignored the warning, went to a private physician and demanded penicillin. He got it. Within five minutes he was dead...
...Radio Corporation of America reported that it had received a signal in New York City probably originating from the satellite. The British Broadcasting System picked up a similar signal in London at 8:50 p.m. EDST...
...they were placed below the earth's surface or under the sea, much more of their energy would turn into useful earth waves. The exact time would be told in advance, so scientists all over the earth could have their instruments tuned to concert pitch. A radio signal might start abreast of each burst of waves. When the earth's gentle, controlled trembling finally quieted down, the scientists would have data for a new understanding of its mysterious interior...
...program. Last week a second test model of the 5,000-mile ICBM, the Atlas, stood erect and gleaming on its launching pad at sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have the highest priority," said Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever (TIME, April...
Whistling at 140 m.p.h. down a runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge...