Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-known sport emblems were blotted out last week: > Seattle Planeman William E. Boeing, owner of a large string of race horses, had his racing silks changed from a red ball on white background to a red square. > The redball skating banner, for generations the traditional ice-pond signal to indicate "good skating today," was condemned by northern U.S. communities. To find a suitable substitute, a contest will be conducted. One suggestion: a black-&-blue flag...
...hangar which is known to be 30 feet high casts a 20-foot shadow, what is the height of a signal tower which casts a 70-foot shadow at the same time...
...order to speed the instruction of men trained to deal with communication engineering, Professor Edwin C.Kemble, chairman of the Department of Physics, announced last night that the electronics school, heretofore open only to officers of the Army Signal Corps, will now accept Navy men and a limited number of civilians who are college graduates, or who have resigned from college...
...Fortunately the Department of Physics is well equipped in personnel and laboratory facilities for advanced instruction in electronics. For years naval officers have come to the Cruff Laboratory for advanced training in communication engineering. A special electronics school for officers of the Army Signal Corps has been in operation here since last July. Beginning February 1 this school will serve the Navy as well as the Army and will take in a limited number of civilians who have the prerequisite familiarity with alternating current electrical theory. This school is operating with new, up-to-date equipment. Its corps...
Private Charles F. Spreyer, Harvard's tailback and signal caller in 1939 and 1940, who was drafted last summer prior to his Senior year, has been selected to attend the special officer candidate training school at Fort Bragg, North Carolina...