Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of The Critic of Critics (claimed circulation 15,000) immediately recalled a boxed announcement which had accompanied the Capone-McAfee article: ". . . If any member of the staff of this publication is molested in any way it will be the signal for the opening ... of a well-filled safe deposit box now reposing in the vaults of a certain bank." The same thought occurred when Widow Frances Spencer cried hysterically: "Ask Guy McAfee who did it!" But no safe deposit box was found; and McAfee established that he was in the Hall of Justice at the time of the killings...
...observation planes, flew off to the rendezvous to inspect the weather. Like oldtime cavalry commanders who preferred their personal mounts to Army issue, he flew his own fleet Lockheed-Sirius to Ossining, reported fair flying conditions. At Mitchel Field, L. I., General Foulois gave the "Let's go!" signal. The show...
...Benny Foulois rode his bicycle into New York from Washington, Conn. He wanted to join the Navy. Finding no Navy recruiting station, unable to get into the merchant marine, he enlisted in the Engineer Corps. He rose from the ranks, was a Signal Corps lieutenant in 1908. The first Army man to be taught to fly by Orville Wright, he was assigned to operate the Army's first plane, which he flew after 90 minutes of instruction. During the War he was chief of the A. E. F. air service...
...return for more supplies. Once again Watkins went to get his friend (who had provisions to last only until May 1) and failed again. (The expedition's two little Moth planes were out of commission.) Then in London, great activity began. Capt. Ralph Raynor of the British Royal Signal Corps, who is engaged to marry young Courtauld's sister, organized a relief expedition with the unlimited backing of the elder Courtauld. He hired Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish flyer who last year attempted an Arctic flight to the U. S., to fly to the rescue in a big Junkers...
...signal may return. Not of may own accord but because of the urgings of may friends have I again undertaken to prognosticate. Especially because of one friend do I take pleasure in predicting some of today's sport events. I mean H.T.P. of the Transcript. He said today was the H-T-P regatta and wouldn't I do something about it. Well, he's an old Harvard man. Draw your own conclusions. I told varsity and the 150-pound race. I couldn't neglect Princeton altogether. I give the Freshman race to the Tiger. To Tech goes the second...