Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Nov. 24, under "What is the Willmoto?" says: "...and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): 'I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew.'" The signal the Odenwald hoisted was F over M which has the above meaning. The signal N over O means "Fire is gaining rapidly. Take off passengers and crew...
...Spain canceled the sailings of merchantmen for the Americas. Spain's entrance into the war would be the signal for attack on Gibraltar, perhaps on Portugal and the Azores as well...
...Turkey was scared stiff at concentrations of troops in Bulgaria. Turkey issued a declaration of neutrality, but was wavering. The capitulation or conquest of Turkey would be the signal for a flanking attack on Suez, probably an assault on Alexandria from...
After the first stunning shock, the defenders swung into action. Spotters in the Navy Yard signal tower picked up the attackers, flashed air-raid warnings via visual signals. Working coolly under enemy bombs and machine-gun fire and shrapnel from defending anti-aircraft batteries, the signalmen routed scores of orders to ships standing out to sea or fighting from berths...
...make dead certain of lasting industrial peace during war's duration? The Smith bill, the club which Congress had fashioned to keep labor in good order, had threatened before war came to bring on a labor blowup. Mr. Roosevelt now had another scheme. At his signal, Administration leaders quietly put the bill away in a closet. Not letting labor forget that the bill was still handy and could be broken out again at a moment's notice, the President suggested that labor and management get together, decide among themselves how to keep the peace...