Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dewey & Almy Chemical (Cambridge, Mass.), which sold at eleven in 1949, has reached the equivalent of 57½. Chicago's Emhart Manufacturing Co. (flexible plastic bottles) has soared from $50 to $80 in three months. Californians recount the wonders of Signal Oil & Gas Co.'s four-year rise from 85 to the equivalent...
...usually protest Miss Kilgallen's relentless onslaught (observed one TVman: "Dottie's butler gets very annoyed if she misses one"). Almost as many take issue with the puns Funnyman Block incorporates into his earnest questions. Others charge collusion, although Moderator Daly insists that there is only one signal he ever gives to the panel: when he pulls his right ear lobe it warns them, usually Block, that the questions are getting dangerously close to double entendre...
Pinpoint Breakaway. At 35,000 ft. Pilot Jensen chanted the breakaway signal: 5-4-3-2-1. Then, as the Skyrocket dropped, the B-29 banked sharply to the left. Bridgeman was on his own. With bare hands (no gloves for this critical job), he flicked four switches in quick sequence. Each switch fired a rocket chamber. They made a curious sound-a "bloof" and a "schplunk," as Bridgeman describes it. A trail of dense white vapor streamed out from the tail. Ten seconds after the drop, Bridgeman was speeding faster than sound. He did not even feel this "passing...
...which was brought from Scotland in sailing ships. Only snag: Daphne was 11,000 miles away and the next ship was not due for some time. But kings, even the king of the Cocos, can command when lesser men may not. In answer to an impatient royal radio signal, the is15,000-ton Ceylon-bound S.S. Ormonde changed course, heaved-to off Cocos to pick up the lovelorn Ross V, sped him to his fiancee. This week the young king was back in London, all set to marry his queen...
...Crusade's 1951 chairman, Harold Stassen, and Fellow Crusaders C. D. Jackson and Drew Pearson, looking like three Statues of Liberty, held high above their heads big rubber balloons. At signal they solemnly let go. The balloons rose into a cloud-flecked, moonlit sky. Then for several hours hydrogen hissed from tanks as some 2,000 other balloons were filled and released in the glare of lamps from a truck convoy...