Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheepishly the Chinese commander later said he supposed the Iping had misunderstood his "signal to stop...
...name of Maj.-General George Owen Squier, retired chief signal officer of the U. S. Army, stood out from the list of exhibitors. In his baggage of accomplishments are these devices depending upon abstruse physics: the sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer...
Wherever Thomas Ross, famed carrier-pigeon expert (TIME. Aug. 11), went, his old brown bird Arthur was indisputably king of the roost, for Arthur had a didactic turn of mind. Expert Ross joined the Army to train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...
...midmorning they stood outside the Curtis house intently watching a second-story window shade. The doctor had promised to raise it as a signal of the end. Everything was very still. A Negro boy was exercising polo ponies nearby. The air was sweet with spring. . . . Up, slowly up went the shade...
...winter plus Depression caused a change in this situation. At the start of last week stocks of alcohol according to the Journal of Commerce were estimated to have mounted to between 60,000,000 and 80,000,000 gal. But this was not the industry's only storm signal. Alcohol (unless made synthetically) comes from molasses. It takes two and seven-tenths gallons of molasses plus about 10? manufacturing cost to produce one gallon of alcohol. In December molasses cost 11? per gallon, at the start of last week it cost 4.3?. This reduced the cost of production...