Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above the Arctic Circle, a pilot must land at every prospector's shack where a letter is to be delivered, or where a signal is displayed that a letter is to be picked up. On the 200-mi. route between Tanana and Ruby, planes make as many as 26 stops. For mail service last year Alaskan Airways collected $10,340 from the Government. To take over the Alaskan operation, P. A. A. organized Pacific...
...bets of thousands of francs on each roach race. Racing roaches run in narrow tracks covered with glass. Each roach is numbered with white ink. At the starting line they are restrained by transparent covers. At the finish line is a large black box, invitingly open. At the starting signal a strong light is switched on behind the roaches, their covers removed. Mortally hating bright lights, the roaches run for the darkness of the boxes at the other end of the tracks. Last week's bitterest rival cockroaches were Mick the Miller, named for a famed British racing greyhound...
...With hands which are usually busy knitting, Chairwoman Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy, a motherly soul who is president of the Needlework Guild of America and whose husband used to run Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit, took up a pencil and rapped on a table for order. Her signal got the attention of a potent segment of the nation's womanpower...
...constructed trenches which they had dug just a month ago in Trujillo's short bloody revolt (TIME, July 18). Soldiers lined the parapet. At a word of command the 44 men, helplessly dodging back & forth, were shot down. Thus last week did peppery little President Luis Sanchez Cerro signal the stability of his regime, celebrate the 111th anniversary of Peruvian independence...
...tiny runners crawl around the track, a bunched field thinning out on the last lap while one dark little man sprinted furiously to get in front,it was impossible to see who had won; but after the race was over, the employe received, for the first time, the signal to hoist the Italian flag to the top of his pole. As the flag went up, the employe saw the dark little man fiddling calmly with the zippers of his training pajamas, then walking solemnly across the green arena toward the victory stand, his right hand raised in a Fascist salute...