Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special ceremony in the Pentagon's inner courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available...
...revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass' to my lug [ear]?" The dean beat a hasty retreat, but Jenny's signal touched off a riot. In spite of chastising Jenny and her drastic action, Hannas today are Presbyterians...
...knottier problem. They cannot be ignored. Yet often the woman who voices them most vociferously is using them to lash out at those around her and is not likely to carry them out. The challenge to the psychiatrist is to judge when the threats are a reliable warning signal...
...signal came in strong, was amplified by a trailerful of electronic apparatus (made for the purpose by Bendix Aviation Corp.), and recorded on a chart. When the first real satellite takes to space, ten Minitrack receiving stations will be ready in the U.S., Cuba, Antigua, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Australia. Their information about the satellite's motion will be flashed electronically to Washington, where past orbits will be charted and future orbits predicted by computer...
Sensitive Signals. Such are the statistics that make up the "leading index," a sensitive collection of figures used by many economists to signal changes in the nation's business climate before they become generally noticeable. The index-and two other similar barometers-was developed by analysts of the National Bureau of Economic Research, including Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and Arthur Burns, former council chairman and now president of the bureau. Since it accurately foretold the 1947 and 1953 recessions, the index is now giving many an economist and businessman the recession...