Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Service men, all carrying golf bags from which protruded three or four ancient and ill-assorted.clubs. Two of the bags contained an additional item o: equipment which many a golfer has wished for in moments of stress-a carbine. The other two masked walkie-talkies for emergency communication. An Army Signal Corpsman, whose golf bag also contained a walkie-talkie set, sat beneath a white arbor near the clubhouse ready t« make contact with the Eisenhower party in case of trouble in Washington...
...there is no opposition, the FCC's final adoption announcement (probably before the end of the year) will be the signal for full-scale manufacture of color sets, perhaps with some on the market within six months. Pioneering televiewers will pay $700 to $1,000 for the earliest models, but mass production is expected to bring prices down to 25-50% above the cost of comparable black & white sets. By the end of 1954, color TV ought to be available. Both CBS and RCA plan to start sample color telecasts this year...
...economy had a few weak spots as well. Some commodity prices were softening (see below), farm income was still down and used car sales continued in their slump. Steel demand was still ahead of production, but the gap was narrowing in some products. There was a potential danger signal in business inventories, which rose to $77.3 billion at the end of June, $4.8 billion higher than a year ago. But there was a balance wheel in the fact that sales were up $5.3 billion above last June. That left the ratio of sales to inventory unchanged...
...German police headquarters near The Hague with his hand on the radio key that was his link with London. The Germans wanted to make the link theirs; Lauwers, recently arrested, had agreed to cooperate. Suspecting that Lauwers might doublecross them, the Germans were ready to jam the signal at the first misplaced dot or dash. But Lauwers had no intention of straying from his captors' text; his British instructions, he says, called for him to garble every 16th letter. By omitting the prearranged errors, he would be informing London that he had been caught...
...bill, 10,000 Orthodox Jews from the Mea Shearim and from all over Israel converged on Shaarei Hessed Square in the biggest anti-government demonstration in Israel's troubled history. Red-eyed from weeping, they swayed and wailed, prayed, and blew upon the ram's horn, a signal of national distress. Despite their prayers, the conscription bill passed the first Knesset reading...