Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost would be prohibitive. And, notes A. T. & T., consider the chewed fingernails when a telephone user ends a conversation in response to such a signal-and is not called back...
...month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian ship: 49°3O min. north, 49°20 min. west. Sixteen hours after Admiral Burke set the operation in motion, Hale had sighted Novorossisk, raised signal flags: HEAVE
...week the Borinage, hardly changed since the days of Author Zola and Painter Van Gogh, erupted again. Its grimy miners, many of them leather-jacketed foreigners-Sicilian and Spanish peasants, Greek sponge fishermen attracted by the wages-barricaded the streets with overturned coal cars. They ripped up rails, destroyed signal equipment, scattered broken glass at crossroads, where their wives shrilly ordered cars and trucks to turn back. At Quaregnon, 20,000 strikers and sympathizers jammed the city square under banners crying: "Death to the Coal and Steel Community!" "Work, not Charity...
Bearing & Distance. VOR/DMET and Decca are radically different. VOR/DMET* gives the distance and direction from each of many individual stations. The navigator can tune to the frequency of a VOR/DMET station and see his compass bearing from that station appear in degrees on a dial. Then he sends a signal to the station, which replies by telling him his distance from it in nautical miles. By plotting the bearing and measuring off this distance on his chart, he can pinpoint his airplane's position and set his course accordingly...
...skilled manpower. Cordiner pointed out that only about 23 per cent of American service men sign up for a second hitch and that the re-enlistment rate for "soft" skills, such as cook and truck-driver, was twice as high as that for "hard" skills, electronics, mechanics or Signal Corps technicians. Considering the expensive and lengthy training in the critical skills area, it seemed to the committee ridiculous to perpetuate a policy which simply fed trained and valuable men out of the military into higher-paying jobs in industry...