Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish the College would lay plank walks in the Yard. As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of the University, we think of this...
Radioman James W. Hodges, who learned his trade in a Kansas City drug store, was ordered to send out his first SOS signal just four minutes after the Dixie grounded. It was weak because the antenna had blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service...
...seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...
...table or at work in their cells. We got to talk once a week, on Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3:30 o'clock when we were allowed in the yard. Of course, we'd try whispering out of the corner of our mouths and we'd use a signal system, but everyone who's caught is punished...
North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan...