Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tactics. Once again Sewell Avery refused to budge from his office. But this time, no one summoned GIs to carry Avery bodily out of his office (TIME, May 8). General Byron left Avery at his desk, took for himself an adjoining office. For a day, while Signal Corps experts installed an Army switchboard, the General and his staff used a pay telephone down the hall. To get desk space for his clerks and advisers, the General turned the company auditorium into a big office, and piled its usual equipment-including a piano-on the stage. General Byron's next...
Colonel John K. Stotz, Signal Corps, USA, head of the Army units in technical training here, announced that a third group, under his command, would remain at the University until the end of July. This school, the USAAF Weather Wings, trains enlisted men in the use of special equipment, not radar, for weather observation...
...Women. The Nazis have also organized a Women's Armed Forces Auxiliary Corps, age 18 to 36, headed bv a Nazi luminary, Frau Scholtz-Klink. In Army administration, signal and antiaircraft jobs, the W.A.F.A.C., too, releases men for the sorely pressed fighting fronts. The W.A.F.A.C. council is ruled, appropriately, by that famed lover of women, Dr. Goebbels. Affecting to disdain the Russian practice of thrusting women into battle, the Völkischer Beobachter snorted: "It is not a question of training something like the Soviet Russian Flintenweiber [rifle wenches]. We will not have any un-German amazons and everything...
Landing is accomplished by means of radio. In a normal instrument landing, a pilot aligns his plane on a radio signal beam from the field and steers his plane along it. In the new system, the radio signals themselves steer the ship; the pilot need not touch the controls. One instrument, the "localizer," guides the plane toward the middle of the runway; another, the "glide path," controls its descent. The instruments can pick up a plane 15 to 35 miles away at 3,000 feet altitude and glide it in to a perfect three-point landing...
...great opera houses have claques, and the Met's is typical. Directed by a chief and a staff of skilled lieutenants, it is composed of ham-handed waiters, barbers and ex-musicians who stand at strategically dispersed positions at the back of the audience and, at a signal from their leaders, loose a barrage of claps and bravos. The claque is paid by the Metropolitan's singers, who provide free admission and pay from $5 for a mild flurry of handclapping to $25 for a deafening furor. The late Enrico Caruso, a liberal patron, never sang without...