Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five big fireworks companies -Unexcelled; National Fireworks Co. of Boston; M. Backes and Sons of Wallingford, Conn.; Triumph Fusee and Fireworks Co. of Elkton, Md.; Essex Specialty Co. of Berkley Heights, NJ.-are operating shell-loading plants. Others are turning out: huge parachute flares for the Air Forces; signal lights, both flare and smoke for the Navy and Merchant Marine ; incendiary bombs for Chemical Warfare; huge cannon crackers for the infantry to toss over the heads of soldiers in maneuvers, condition them for gunfire...
Said New York Post Photography Editor John Adam Knight: "One of the amazing things to come out of this war has been the uniformly bad photography produced by the Army Signal Corps. . . . Another phenomenon is the superiority of the pictures sent back by young and relatively inexperienced photographers, such as Elisofon, as compared with the work of oldtime press photographers sent over by the picture syndicates...
...control-tower operators are a kind of remote-control traffic cop. No plane may move about the field without their clearance. By radio and signal lamp they issue priorities in landings and takeoffs, clear and assign runways, give directions for taxiing, direct planes to hangars, cite wind direction and velocity. At a busy field, tower operators have no time for knitting...
...emergencies, lives depend on their fast reactions. One WAVE, on duty during a thunderstorm, discovered that static was jamming her radio. Quickly she grabbed a pair of code signal lights, blinked directions to two planes approaching from opposite directions, averted a bad tangle...
...pleasant change was inaugurated by FCC, which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...