Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day or preparation for Army's eleven went by in uneventful manner yesterday, as Dick Harlow ran two teams through signal drill, and them with considerable revision, put them through a sledge of stationary scrimmage...
...search fro 11 durable men to take the brunt of the attack of the military machine; Harlow was handicapped by the continued absence in Stillman of Maser and Adzigian. The tackles of the A team during signal drill were Mike Adils, recently raised from the Jayvees, and John Cabitor, but little significance was attached to this revision...
...teams were drilled in the Army style of attack for part of the session, by facing an all-star backfield composed of Mike Plam, Wes Fesler, Jimmy Dunu and Clark Reddard. Signal drill, pass defence, and the stationary serimmage took up the rest of the period...
...sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal. The seven great planes wheeled and took off together due south for Ethiopia and the mountains of Tigr...
...Army has 5,000 pigeons, with some 2,000,000 privately-owned carriers in the "reserve." After ten years of experiments at Fort Monmouth, N. J., the Signal Corps has developed a brood of 100 night-flying pigeons-first of their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears...