Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their preliminary flashes sent, press associations began to get an idea of the scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences met at the Roosevelt Hotel. At Hollywood's United Airport, three planes piloted by members of the stunt flyers' union were waiting, in case union demands were not met, to fly over the studios with black trailers as a signal for union labor to quit. The hotel meeting became so excited that when it adjourned with nothing decided, no one remembered to notify the pilots. While the meeting continued later, in Producer Ben Schulberg's bungalow at Paramount, a smart stenographer found a forgotten but unexpired five-year contract between producers...
...Reichstag fire was set by Communists, police promptly charged. Over a nationwide radio hookup the Minister of Interior for Prussia, blustering Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, cried: "The Reichstag fire was to have been the signal for the outbreak of open civil war! . . . The Communists had in readiness 'terror squads' of 200 each. . . . These were to commit their dastardly acts disguised as units of our own Nazi Storm Troops and the Stahlhelm. . . . The women and children of high Government officials were to have been kidnapped as hostages and used in the civil war as 'living shields...
...flagman swings his lamp, or his flag or hand, in a vertical circle at half-arm's length across the track. The engineer blows three short blasts, his indication that he has understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break...
...When the train is running, the same three short blasts mean that the engineer has understood the signal to stop at the next station. Other important whistle-signals: Two long blasts, two short: approaching a highway crossing; three long blasts: train in motion has parted; one short blast: apply all brakes...