Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly three months the homely authority of John Nance ("Jack") Garner has kept the Democratic House of Representatives trotting along peacefully behind President Hoover's relief measures. Many a fighting Democrat was irked at this political docility. The President's reorganization proposal came as a signal for the House to break and run on its own. Democratic leaders got hold of advance copies of the President's message, announced, just one day before its reading in the House, their own plans for a survey of the executive Government to effect economies. When grizzled old Speaker Garner officially...
...thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third day the radio failed, its last message expressing thanks for the efficient communications but adding: "We had rather have a barrel of beer." On the sixth day the men were found alive, about 200 mi. south of In Salah, in the heart of the desert...
After a long study of the subject the staff of the Bureau has come to regard the interval-light traffic signal system as almost a panacea for congestion and delays on busy city streets. At the request of the Boston City government the Bureau undertook a thorough survey of conditions in that city in 1929, which resulted in the installation, among other things, of this system of lights on School and Washington Streets, and the streets which run at right angles to them, and also along the length of Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. This arrangement consists of an electrical time...
...Catalonia at the other end of the Pyrenees, Syndicalists and Communists have been waiting for many weeks for a chance to rise. Bilbao was their signal. In Barcelona a swiftly thrown police dragnet arrested the organizer of a general strike, an Italian named Duriti, and dozens of assistants, seized truckloads of pamphlets and posters. Trouble centered further north, about the manufacturing town of Manresa, where 410 years ago St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, spent a year in a cave preparing his Exercitia Spiritualia...
...Because of indications that Mrs. Stanford lived several hours after the crash, Aviatrix Ruth Nichols, Quaker, pacifist, obtained a pistol permit in Westchester County, N. Y. so that she might signal for help in case of a forced landing in a wilderness...