Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were married; World War II was under way, and Julius was working as a civilian engineer for the Army's Signal Corps (a good spot for spying on East Coast defense plants) when his Communist Party membership came to the attention of Army authorities. He was dropped from the Signal Corps. But he became more valuable than ever to Moscow. He went underground. He became part-owner and operator of a Manhattan machine shop. But secretly he ran an apparatus of spies and informants who passed scientific and technical data to Russian agents, including Anatoli Yakovlev, a clerk...
Canada's national election, its first since 1949, will be held Aug. 10. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent set the date last week within 48 hours after his return from the coronation, giving the signal for active campaigning to begin this week...
...gunnery range outside Athens one hot morning last week, Greece's King Paul and 60 military men gathered to watch an ordnance test. At a signal from a dark-eyed, black-haired man in a black suit, a 3.5-in. bazooka was fired five times at a sheet of 8-in. armor. It punched five gaping holes in it. When the test ended, a U.S. Army colonel stepped up to the man in the black suit, Bodossakis Athanassiades, and formally approved $17 million in offshore-procurement contracts for him to make bazooka rockets for NATO...
...impetus and such a number of points exposed above that it is probable that the point which we wish will come uppermost." He knew about soaping a card to make it recognizable to the touch, listed several ways of marking cards and told how nimble-footed partners could signal each other on a loose floor board...
...some air lanes, distance-measuring equipment (DME) is being installed along with the Omniranges. A small transmitter in the approaching plane sends out brief pulses of radio energy. At the Omnirange station, another transmitter answers with a similar signal. Aloft, complicated circuits translate the time between pulse and answer into the plane's distance from the Omnirange, shown on a handy dial...