Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Percy and his aides then send wireless orders to the ships at sea. In the case of convoys, they signal the naval escort, which consists in most cases of two destroyers, with here and there a corvette thrown in, trying to protect 20 to 60 vessels in the convoy...
Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...
...above their depression lows, inventories have risen less than one-third, and the gap between the two is the widest ever (see chart). Normally, low inventories are a sign of smart merchandising, meaning faster turnover, fresher and more attractive goods. In 1941, low inventories are also a danger signal. If storekeepers keep their shelves so bare in the face of a still soaring demand, they may soon awake to find themselves forced to buy in a priorities-ridden seller's market, bidding prices up. The fear that prices will soon be higher has recently gripped businessmen, Government...
Harvard definitely get the go-ahead signal until Congress appropriates the necessary funds to the National Youth Administration, and until the N.Y.A. in turn allocates a certain amount for the use of Harvard students. Congress probably will not vote on the question until late June, but College officials are proceeding on the assumption that the money will appropriated at that time...
From the nutritional standpoint, dairy, fruit and vegetable products have long been a signal deficiency in the U. S. national diet. The next phase of defense is almost certain to see Nutrition emerge as a national slogan. To Agriculture officials, the task of feeding the democracies interlocks nicely with their own long-term aims: move the farmers out of surplus export crops, and give the U. S. better-balanced rations...