Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the economy is so finely balanced, the Administration has been keeping an especially sharp eye out for any price hike that might signal-or set off-a trend toward inflation. Last week Bethlehem Steel Corp., the nation's second biggest steel producer (after U.S. Steel), increased by $5 a ton (to $119) the price of its steel structural shapes and piling. The price hike covered only 5% of all Bethlehem's production, was for a specialty steel that is used mostly in construction and does not appear in such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators...
...place and a plugged-in telephone provided close-up communication with the astronauts even before they opened their hatches. TV brought its fans as close as any Wasp crewman when the capsule was finally hoisted on deck, and as his hatch opened, Wally Schirra gave the familiar thumbs-up signal of success. Then, while the band played Anchors Aweigh, the two space travelers walked briskly down the red carpet of welcome between lines of cheering sailors and marines...
Sometime next month a switch will be thrown at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, sending light flooding into the experimental hall that has been dark since last July's explosion. For many Harvard and M.I.T. physicists it will signal the start of a million dollar gamble...
...moved from offense to defense with the return of platoon football this season. Signal caller for the defensive secondary, he led the Crimson in pass interceptions with five, and handled 16 punt returns. He made several spot appearances as an offensive halfback late in the season when the Crimson suffered a rash of injuries at that post...
...scramble in oil shares on the London stock exchange last week and heat up the race to get down to the sea in rigs. Of the 23 consortiums that Britain has licensed to explore its area of the North Sea, only five (Continental and British Petroleum, plus Shell-Esso, Signal and the Phillips Group) are actually drilling. Holding up the others: the slowness of British shipyards in building the rigs, which cost up to $10 million...