Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...procurement branches of the Army -Ordnance, Quartermaster Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Engineers, Medical Corps, Signal Corps, Air Corps-have been linked, since the War, with civilian industries organized under reserve officers, as a measure of national defense. Army experts estimate that ten industrial workers are necessary to supply the needs of each and every uniformed soldier in wartime. Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private...
...signal for the uprising was the mutiny of 800 troops in Mexico City, which was speedily put down. More serious revolts took place in Vera Cruz, Coahuila, Morelos, spreading eventually to the state of Chihuahua, San Luis Potsi, Durango. Government troops were successful, however, in overpowering the rebels at several important points and forcing them to take refuge in the mountains...
...local retaliation is possible. Widener Library at 10 o'clock of almost any evening except during the mid-semester hysteria is a scene of quite repose. When the lights momentarily go down as signal for closing they conceal possibly a score of souls in utter darkness. In the cubicles of the stacks there are others, but the General and Lower Reading rooms exhibit the hurly burly of a deserted village. Only the Farnsworth Room may be said to be adequately occupied...
...lightest and fastest elevens seen in Cambridge in recent years ran through a snappy signal drill on the Stadium turf late yesterday afternoon. This team which will represent Purdue against the University this afternoon at 3 o'clock will go into today's game outweighed by almost 14 pounds to the man. What they lack in weight the Westerners will attempt to make up in speed and accurate handling of the ball. Few plays, according to information gathered in the Boilermaker's camp yesterday afternoon, are likely to be directed at the Crimson guards this afternoon. Off tackle slants...