Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master's degree in business administration. A 1924 airplane crash left him bedridden for a year. Recovered, he plunged into oil operations. As head of tiny Petrol Corp. he first fought the major companies, but when Petrol Corp. had its back to the wall, he allowed a major (Signal Oil) to bail him out. At 38 he was a millionaire...
Germany's newest song hit was hummed in streetcars, in movie theaters and at political meetings. Radio Berlin used the opening bars for a musical call signal. Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood...
Dead-Man Formation. How could five planes vanish without one of them getting off an intelligible radio signal? Had one driven the rest of a wing-to-wing, "deadman formation" into a mass collision...
Instead of 20 minutes, the Signal Corps took eight hours and 28 minutes to get the message to Short (by commercial cable instead of Army radio). Nobody had bothered to check up on the Signal Corps; the General Staff took for granted that the message was going full speed ahead...
...Danger Signal (Warner) is a yarn about a family of ardent cinemaddicts who are menaced by a type that they should have been adequately warned against: the sleek, mustachioed lady-killer. Armed with a revolver, an engagement ring ironically inscribed "Till death us do part" and a shorthand pad on which his victims write their own suicide notes, the killer (Zachary Scott) goes about victimizing the girls for whatever he can get: love, money, auto rides, or free psychiatric advice. As soon as his ladies begin to lose their first attraction, he reaches for the shorthand pad and the revolver...