Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like old times in England this Easter Sunday. Once again the people heard their beloved church bells. Muted since Dunkirk three years ago (they were to be rung only to signal invasion), they have pealed out only twice since, on a memorable Sunday last November, when they rang in thanksgiving for the victory at El Alamein, and last Christmas. But now they will ring out each Sunday...
...Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...
...served in the French Army from October 1910 until March 1919, and this period includes two years at l'Ecole Polytechnique. In the first World War LeCorbeiller was advanced to the rank of Captain in the French Signal Corps. He is reluctant to speak of his experiences in the last war except to say that he was liaison officer between the French and our own Major General Edgar Russel, chief signal officer of the American Expeditionary Force. (You fellows from Menmouth will remember Russel Hall, named after him.) Dr. LeCorbeiller recalls with pleasure the grand and glorious times...
...beginning of World War II, LaCorbeiller was recommissioned as a Major in the French Signal Corps. He served for a while as radio officer G.H.Q., but he was glad to get into more active service when he was sent to be radio officer for the fighting French Army of the Alps. Dr. LeCorbeiller speaks with Pearle of the unshakeable courage and devotion of this French Army which held the German and Italian forces at bay while the rest of the lines crumbled. They would not surrender until they were entered to, and then they were disappointed that they could...
...alarm, rung in from box 481 at University Hall at 9:29 o'clock, brought three engine companies, two ladder companies, one rescue company, and countless delighted students to the scene. Brought to the public eye by the fire was the fact that the University Hall warning signal is the only fire alarm box in the Yard. A few minutes' delay occurred when the Navy sentry who first reached the call box failed to pull the alarm lever...