Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disaster insurance, able to get through with photographic negatives (up to 20 frames of 35 mm. film in a plastic capsule) where modern communications are blacked out. The pigeons broke into journalism when the great 1923 earthquake turned Tokyo into a shambles, forced editors to rely on a small signal-corps flock. The birds soon earned the title "Hato-san."* As recently as 1959, when a typhoon smashed the industrial city of Nagoya, leaving telephone and wirephoto services dead, the Nagoya Chubu Nippon used its 200 birds to rush negatives from inundated suburbs...
...with SAC. Hayden's playing seems extremely right. His Ripper is impotent, a one-man military complex who means singlehanded to save the world from water fluoridation and other Communist plots "that threaten the purity and essence of our natural fluids." He alone knows the three-letter code signal to recall the bombers...
...Paul's. And to go with the words are eleven graphic exhibits-a map, a battle plan, paintings and a detailed cutaway drawing of Nelson's flagship Victory, plus facsimiles of a crucial Nelson memorandum of the London Times of Nov. 7, 1805, and of ten signal flags by which Nelson told his fleet in code, ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY...
...hell out of here!" And out he went, elbowing past the bowler-hatted women guards, and down the narrow stairs to the dirt street below. After him tumbled three more Americans and 13 other hostages, as their surprised lady jailers shrieked at them to halt. "The uncertainty was the signal to move," Michael A. Kristula recalled later. "I said to myself that if the crowd outside was hostile, all we could do was go up the stairs again. But the crowd was friendly...
...purposeful spreading out of work to make jobs been more conspicuous than on the railroads, and nowhere has the Government tried harder to end such "featherbedding." Last week-after two earlier U.S. presidential boards had wrestled with the problem-a congressionally appointed panel awarded the railroads a signal victory. In the first peacetime arbitration ever imposed by Congress, the board ruled that almost all of the 33,000 firemen who work aboard diesel-powered freight and yard trains are "not necessary" and should be gradually phased...