Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groundswell, backed up to the north. Time limit for America's Cup races is five-and-a-half hours. Five-and-a-half hours after the start Rainbow was barely half a mile from the finish line, with Endeavour a mile astern. The Committee boat gave the signal-dropping a red ball-that meant "No Contest...
More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...week they produced as an example of Fascist freedom of the Press an article by Air Marshal Italo Balbo criticizing plans to subordinate the Air Force to the Army and Navy-plans reputedly favored by II Duce. Actually the appearance of such an article is apt to be a signal that the Dictator has changed his mind upon the point in question. It was small proof of freedom of the Press that Marshal Balbo was able to get on the front page of Air Minister Benito Mussolini's official service organ last week the following...
...moment, it looked as if his stubborn faith in his entry might be justified. Cavalcade was loping along in third place when Discovery popped out in front of the field going into the stretch. The flash of the Vanderbilt silks seemed the signal for which the Kentucky Derby winner had been waiting. Cavalcade began his famed finishing spurt, took a few long strides. won as he pleased. Four lengths behind, hard pressed by Hadagal, Discovery took second place...
...Their first plea was for a 24-hour armistice between shippers and strikers. It came at a crucial moment, just as San Francisco businessmen threatened to send in strike breakers and open the port. If the port were opened by such forcible methods everyone knew it would be a signal for riot and bloodshed. The board found just one big point still in dispute: Should employers or the union run the "hiring halls," where will be drawn up the lists from which stevedores are to be engaged...