Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours later the boy at the pithead heard the signal bell from the 141-ft. level, indicating that the three wanted to come up. Seconds later he heard the dread nine bell alarm, meaning DANGER, then a great rumbling roar. The walls of the shaft had buckled, the ground over nearly an acre had dropped several feet. Headed by Premier Angus MacDonald, most of Nova Scotia's Provincial officials rushed to the scene...
Soggy fields and a cold drizzle drove the gridsters into the cage yesterday afternoon for their first post-vacation practice. Due to cramped quarters, the squad was divided into five teams and run through signal drill for the entire session...
...river bank was black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth...
...struck. Down to the engine room flashed the signal: FULL SPEED ASTERN. Four propellers, each as big as a bungalow, churned the chocolate-colored water to froth. It was too late. Bow and stern, the 80,773-ton ship was aground. Her own engines were useless...
Awarded. To Always Faithful, U. S. Army Signal Corps carrier pigeon: a gold medal and certificate of honor by the American Racing Pigeon Union; for flying the 715 mi. from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Fort Monmouth, N. J. at an average speed of 47 m.p.h., beating 1,114 competitors...