Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every half hour last week a ship's bell chimed from a loudspeaker through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, followed by an announcement such as this: "Four bells. Two o'clock, nautical time. This signal was brought to you by courtesy of the Sea Scouts of America. The bell was struck by Scout Robert Schmidt." If the bell rang between times everybody in the hall stopped, listened. It meant that another boat had been sold from the floor of the 29th annual Motor Boat Show...
Hearty is David Sarnoff's dislike for Horatioalgerian accounts of his 42 years upon earth. To inquisitive reporters the chunky, bustling president of Radio Corp. of America always hands out three mimeographed sheets listing in chronological order all his important dates, including his appointments in the U. S. Signal Corps, in which he now is a reserve colonel. Some Sarnoff dates...
Suppose it were possible to fire a blank cartridge so big and loud it could be heard across the U. S. Suppose such a cartridge were fired in New York as starting signal for a Westbound airplane. Three hours and 20 min. later the noise of the explosion would echo up San Francisco's Market Street and just 76 minutes after that the airplane would swish down upon San Francisco Bay, at a landing speed of 103 m. p. h. It would, that is. if Engineer John Stack knows how to use a wind tunnel and a slide rule...
Sarah, a mass of feline fur, follows the Yard officials on their most solitary rounds. She is never far from a guardian of the Yard: her mew accompanies every flicker of the signal lantern at Gray's Hall...
...both counts for five days last week. Fully 2,000 people at a time crowded the gallery. So many socialites jammed the front rows that one eager bidder at the rear of the hall had to perch on the back of a chair with a pair of binoculars and signal his bids as he got the range. On sale were the furniture, jewelry, silverware and clothing of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, eccentric daughter of pious John Davison Rockefeller...