Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduced longdistance rates under FCC prodding-then quickly made up the difference by increasing its volume. A.T. & T. might well be able to pare long-distance rates still further, but a fat slash would create so much new business that it might lead to one big busy signal...
PHILIP ARDERY, PETER CUMMINGS, NANCY H. DAVIS, JOHN D. GERHART, CURTIS A. HESSLER, ELLEN LAKE, A. DOUGLAS MATTHEWS, GREGORY P. PRESSMAN, GEORGE H. ROSEN, RAND E. ROSENBLATT, DANIEL J. SIGNAL, AND WILLIAM H. SMOCK...
...turn it on or off is to clap his hands twice, quickly and sharply. The claps trigger the switch-and presto! Or a dog whistle, provided with the $40 switch, can be blown twice. For Sonuswitch is trained to respond only to 14-kilocycle signals that occur twice in the space of half a second. A constant signal will not do it, and the company, which is primarily an acoustical research and development firm, claims that few stray sounds will accidentally trigger...
...University people, to take just two examples). The successful councillor wins and holds his "number one voters." As an incumbent, he spends most of his time trying to keep them happy. He answers their questions, attends their parties, makes sure their garbage is collected, sees to it that a signal light is installed at the corner or a sidestreet repaved. Consequently, by the time election time rolls around, a large percentage of Cambridge voters have, in effect, already pledged their "number one votes...
...advisers who sometimes feel that they are the "forgotten men" in the new war, went too. The brittle Yen had run through five U.S. advisers until Leftwich came along. By quiet persuasion, Leftwich got Yen to add an engineering platoon, a 75-mm. howitzer platoon, a support and a signal detachment to what had been a medieval band. Since then, Colonel Yen and his men have been killing V.C. at a 9-to-1 ratio...