Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faye Emerson, the new Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, whose cinemactress roles have been small (in The Very Thought of You, Mask of Dimitrios) was given a starring part in a new Warner Bros. film, Danger Signal...
Explaining his success not long ago, Hopkins said: "You must recognize that the most important thing in dealing with the President is to understand his signal system. With ordinary people you listen to what they say, watch their lips maybe. But with the President, you've got to pay attention to his eyebrows. They're his signals. They're more important than what he says with his mouth. The reason I've stayed with the President so long is that I understand his signals...
...army appeal to draft exempt citizens between 18 and 35, Lieutenant Stanley W. Massack said men are needed to do vital work in the Signal Corps, stressing that "The positions are so closely connected with the fighting fronts that only persons of unquestioned loyalty, integrity, and highest moral standards need apply...
...Army & Navy surpluses, figured out civilian uses for them. When a Gimbel buyer heard of a stock of 100,000 Army-rejected small parachutes used to drop flares, he grabbed them from the manufacturer. Gimbel's sold all of them. Another buyer nabbed 750 surplus Signal Corps field telephones. They went like hot cakes at $29.95 ea. Civilians used them as intercommunication systems in offices and homes...
...auto industry, which has the toughest job of all, had its own private incentive for speed. Spry old Henry Ford expected to be turning out new cars within two months after he got the signal. Others could not afford to be too far behind. Most important, U.S. industry probably would not be hampered by any complex system of quotas which would protect established companies at the price of freezing out new companies and competition. At the beginning of the year business was highly suspicious that wartime controls would somehow be kept shackled on them in peace. But at year...