Word: signalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lewis embezzlement was the signal for an attack by the Ford Motor Company on Mayor Frank Murphy who had refused to use his influence in setting aside a city tax levy on a $2,000,000 Ford tunnel. The chief of the Ford Motor Company police department was chosen as the Ford spokesman. He hurled charges wild and vague, finally narrowing them down to 329 specific cases of "apparent fraud" in which Ford workmen accepted city welfare. To date less than 100 of these cases have been shown to be fraudulent-100 cases...
...glad I yelled at the top of my voice. We had arranged to fire a revolver signal to let other members of the party know if any of us were successful, but I forgot all about that...
...dedicated. Beaten at every turn by Comet (as Payne was frustrated in business and love), Wayne goes as a passenger on an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Moscow sponsored by his paper (as Payne went in Hearst's Old Glory}. Excerpt: "He wanted to win a signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters, I have nothing to live for. We are both wrong. Keeping up newspaper circulation with stunts is like reviving a dying man with oxygen tanks...
Major General George Sabin Gibbs, 55, retired chief signal officer of U. S. Army Signal Corps, was made a vice president of International Telephone & Telegraph...
...most noteworthy purchase in North America was the Mackay companies which included Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., bought in 1928. Col. Sosthenes, the more glamorous half of the Brothers Behn, acquired his title during the World War when he distinguished himself with the U. S. Signal Corps in France. An industrial Don Quixote, he specializes in daring enterprises. As chairman of I. T. & T. he has been able to do what he likes. Behn Brother Hernand is less bold, more intuitive. Their