Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current contest between ideologies for the minds of men has done us, too, a signal, if unexpected, service. It has cast in sharp relief what we have and support, against the backdrop of the terrible tyranny of totalitarian governments and their ruthless domination over the lives of human beings. In defending the ways of a free people we have been forced to compare our systems, so that all who are able to learn may make a choice...
...Miles Up. Hanging nose-up below its balloon, Far Side will be lifted nearly 19 miles above the earth, where the air has one-hundredth the density of sea-level air. A radio signal from the ground will set an igniting system in motion. The four Stage One Recruits will roar into life, concentrating their 160,000 lbs. of thrust on the small rocket and snapping it upward with 70 g. of acceleration. It will shoot through the filmy balloon as if it were not there. The first stage fuel will be burned in 1.5 sec., giving Far Side...
...Ohio hamlet named Jacksonburg ("there must," he cracked, "have been Democrats in the vicinity"). He lived up to his Algeresque origins by delivering newspapers, quit school at 16 to become a teacher, soon took a job as cub-of-all-work on the old Middletown Signal. He always had "a passionate interest in newspapers." Turning passion into profit, he put the Dayton Daily News into the black in less than five years after he bought the paper (for $26,000) in 1898, bought the Dayton Journal-Herald (current circ. 93,290), the Springfield, Ohio morning Sun (17,874) and Daily...
...Pocket Buzzer. Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania is testing a pocket buzzer to call people out of range of standard telephone bells to the phone. Operated by radio signal from the telephone company's office, the pocket buzzer emits a high-pitched hum whenever the subscriber is wanted, signaling him to head for the nearest phone. Service is being used by doctors, newspapermen, plumbers, salesmen and TV servicemen, in the Bethlehem-Allentown area. Cost: $10 a month for up to 80 calls, 5? extra for each additional call...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...