Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying "Mark...
...shells raced past the half-mile and then past the mile. Suddenly Bissell barked out his crisp command. "Up it, Gerry. Send it up." It was the signal to raise the stroke, to start the last...
...Glee Club has just received a signal honor by being one of two organizations chosen to sing special works by living American composers. The scores have not yet been finished, but the League of Composers has commissioned several musicians to write them and the Glee Club will render its piece next year...
...plant of smallish Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. in Cleveland one day last week, employes clustered around bulletin boards on which were posted notices of a 10% wage increase effective April 1. Such was the signal for a general upping of all steel wages. One by one other steel companies fell in line. Finally U. S. Steel made it official for the industry by announcing a raise of "approximately 10%" for some 140,000 of its employes. Noteworthy was the fact that for the first time U. S. Steel allowed an independent to initiate the new wages of steel...
...chairman of Southern Pacific Co. Indictments were based on no less than 185 counts for Associated, 149 for Standard, including one for each day's violation of the oil code after it was signed Aug. 19. The charges: 1) Standard Oil of California secretly controls two small companies. Signal Oil & Gas of Delaware and Signal Oil & Gas of California, while Associated controls smallish Seaside Oil Co.; 2 ) these subsidiaries, while posing as competitors of their parent companies, conspired to sell Standard and Associated gasoline to the public under a different brand at drastically reduced prices in order to squeeze...