Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Erie, Pa. last week, Alfred E. Perlman, president of the New York Central Railroad, ushered in a new symbol of 20th century progress for his venerable old line. Throwing a switch on a signal box (see cut), he formally opened a new 163-mile, electronically regulated stretch of double track between Cleveland and Buffalo. With the new system, the longest in the U.S., only two men seated before a light-studded control panel at Erie can automatically control all traffic between Cleveland and Buffalo...
...radio communications so that trainmen no longer had to drop notes to station masters from speeding trains. Jenks has even put to work the U.S. Army's sniperscope, which uses infrared rays to see through darkness; a modified version keeps watch on car-axle journal boxes, flashes a signal when the box gets too hot. Coming soon on the Rock Island: centralized TV to keep an eye on crossing gates, plastic train wheels to cut down noise, electronic brains to handle railroad accounting chores...
...cars) at 65 m.p.h. Next year the Union Pacific will try out a newer model, which it hopes will burn an even cheaper fuel-powdered coal. Such roads as the Denver & Rio Grande Western are looking even farther ahead. Its staff of scientists has already developed an atomic signal lamp that will stay bright for twelve years by using radioactive isotopes, is also at work on an atomic-powered locomotive...
Some diseases. Dr. Wróblewski believes, may signal their onset by changes in the enzyme system before any other symptoms appear. This has already proved valuable in early detection of hepatitis, and Dr. Wróblewski has evidence of it in mouse leukemia. If the phenomenon is confirmed in human leukemia, it would mean that more effective treatment of this and perhaps other malignant diseases could begin sooner...
...left, "wheeling a baby carriage piled high with books, dolls, toys, two suitcases, and no baby . . ." Author Gabrielson has written this cry from the heart with courage and competence. It may well bring a measure of consolation to other grieving parents. And, to all readers, it will be a signal affirmation of the human spirit that succeeds, against great odds, in finding the solace of life in death...