Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian Case. The Italian Line denied that the moon was visible or the range of visibility was two miles. The night was "dark and foggy," and Andrea Doria, when her radar picked up Stockholm, was sounding regulation fog signals. Andrea Doria's radar indicated that Stockholm would pass clear to starboard; Andrea Doria altered to port for greater clearance. "Thereafter, Stockholm's lights loomed out of the fog off Andrea Doria's starboard bow, whereupon her (Andrea Doria's) rudder was put hard left, and she sounded two short blasts of her whistle, indicating...
Blaming Stockholm for the crash, the Italian Line charged that the Swedish ship failed to keep a good lookout or make effective use of her radar, was proceeding at immoderate speed through the fog, failed to stop engines after hearing Andrea Doria's fog signal forward of her beam, altered course to starboard without ascertaining the course and position of Andrea Doria, failed to sound proper whistle signals, failed to stop and reverse engines when the danger of collision became apparent, and was proceeding eastward in the path of westbound vessels...
...Army displayed last week a new combat radio that will let G.I.s talk through their helmets. Using transistors instead of vacuum tubes, the radio is small enough to be built to fit into a soldier's helmet. It was developed by the Signal Corps, is designed with a normally short range so that squad members can exchange information without fear of eavesdropping by the enemy. But with a "man-from-Mars" antenna attached on top of the helmet, soldiers can talk to, and receive orders from, command posts more than a mile away...
...that NBC will use at Chicago and San Francisco. The operator aims the camera with one hand, checks the picture he is getting with a portable viewer held in the other (see cut). The 19-lb. "walkie-peepie," which has a range of more than a mile, beams its signal to the convention hall control room where the image is retransmitted...
Waltzes & Polkas. The original horn fanfares were used to signal the different stages of the hunt to riders in the field, e.g., stag at bay, hounds hunt a game unknown, withdrawal from the field. Under Louis XV horn players became more ceremonious, began to specialize in elaborate fanfares signaling such things as the "Salute to the Queen" and the appearance of "The Ladies' Carriage." The ladies were provided with their own little horns with which to answer the bucks in the field. By the 18th century horn buffs were experimenting with waltzes, mazurkas and polkas. In some...