Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from the central balcony of Benito Mussolini's huge Palazzo Venezia as signal that the Grand Council was meeting. Before seeing Mussolini, Premier Goring paid a little call which made oldtime diplomats smile. In Rome, visiting his father-in-law, was handsome young Prince Philip of Hesse. Premier Göring brought him word that Adolf Hitler had just appointed him president...
...mouth of the bag to maintain the hot air supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute, but now he felt he must stay and look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard...
...little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish to reveal gorgeous white silk tights, glittering with spangles. He was Louis ("King Louie") Bonette, junior member of Bonette Bros., daredevil aerialists. Daredevil Bonette perched himself on the trapeze, looked to his parachute, waved a nonchalant signal, and sailed off skyward in the hot air balloon with the camera clicking down...
...cloudy at any of the observatories the director will press a button and transmit the signal to the Exposition. W. A. Calder, tutor in Astronomy, who has been doing research work in astronomy with the photo-electric cell, has invented and set up the apparatus that will be used on the 24-inch reflector at Oak Ridge...
...This Revolution differs from the [German] revolt of 1918 [which established the Republic] in that this one was conducted with discipline. I repudiate the charge brought against me that in my Essen speech I gave a signal for relaxing discipline, much less for plundering and the like. But this I emphasize, that I am not so cowardly as to recoil from that which Nazis have done in the exuberance of their feelings...