Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobiles. In Buenos Aires one midnight last month, Domingo stepped on the starter of his 1939 Chevrolet and waited for the Gran Premio de la America del Sur to begin. So did 137 other drivers * in their Fords, Chevies and a sprinkling of Plymouths, Nashes and Buicks. At the signal, they roared off into the night...
What's a Signal? The Dow theorists could not agree. Chicago's Justin Barbour, who interprets the Dow theory for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, said the break-through did confirm a bear market. But in Manhattan, Thomas W. Phelps, of Francis I. Du Pont & Co., another leading Dow exponent, thought otherwise. The industrials and rails, said Phelps, would have to break their lows of last February (when the industrials were at 164.07 and the rails at 47.48) before a positive bear "signal" would be given. The New York Herald Tribune's financial editor, C. Norman Stabler...
...spotters, according to the spokesman, were to give the signal when players and officials moved out of the mid-field area. The first opportunity of this kind did not come until Harvard had been downed deep in its own territory after the kick...
...that he relaxes. The sawed-off ex-halfback spends the 60 minutes of play talking into a telephone which runs to the bench, where quarterbacks and coaches can check on the progress of the week's game plan; between halves he talks to the signal callers and gives Valpey a quick recap of the effectiveness of Crimson formations...
Yesterday's practice followed the usual Monday afternoon pattern: calisthenics, signal drills, non-contact work against the blocking dummies, and finally movies of the Brown game in the Dillon lounge. "We'll have a full-scale contact scrimmage tomorrow," Valpey announced yesterday...