Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week London got its first and only bombing during July. After 32 peaceful nights the 2 a.m. alert signal-567th since the war began-so startled many Londoners that they turned on their lights before pulling their blackout curtains and got a dressing down from the air-raid wardens...
Best insurance against materials shortages, Scott knows, are defense contracts. So he went to Washington, got a $25,000 order for compass cases from the British Purchasing Commission. Soon he was also making about $1,000 worth of aluminum castings a week for Army Signal Corps and aircraft companies. Last week he completed his jump from basement to big time. To his company went a $1,010,000 British order for oxygen regulators for fighting planes. Scott will get most of the parts from subcontractors, will hire 50 new workers to assemble them in a new $20,000 plant...
...occupied countries to mark the letter everywhere, even on the backs of German officers. According to reports that leaked out in a few places, they actually did. "He told people how to tap it out in Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening "fate-knocks-at-the-door" motif is three short bars and one long one. Beethoven...
Onslow Beach was whipped with rain and the breakers were capped with white when Task Force 18 began its exercises one night. On a high-topped dune "Howlin' Mad" Smith stood with his staff, scanning the sea through night glasses. Through the scud a signal light blinked in code: "Execute...
...celebrated its commercial tag by telecasting a Brooklyn-Philadelphia ballgame from Ebbets Field. Bulova Watch Co. paid $4 for a time signal before the game, $8 for another in the evening. Sun Oil Co. shelled out $100 to televize Lowell Thomas and his news, Procter & Gamble paid the same to put on Truth or Consequences and Lever Bros, another $100 to give their television of Uncle Jim's Question...