Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...array. British ships went one way, U.S. ships the other, until the two had formed into separate task forces like two huge targets on the water, the carriers in the bull's-eyes of each. Side by side the two forces steamed along, code flags dipping and bobbing, signal lights blinking. One problem of the exercise was to develop a "joint language of command" understandable by both tars and bluejackets. On Mainbrace, U.S. signalmen no longer reported signal pennants "two-blocked" when they are hauled to the end of the yard. Instead they used the British term "close...
...abhors a vacuum. In February the Civil Defense authorities asked him to keep WNBC on the air from midnight until 6 a.m. so that the station would be ready to function instantly in case of an emergency. All the Civil Defense required was a constant tone signal. Instead, Cott decided to fill the six hours with classical music and see what would happen...
...chief report at the Congress will be made by Georgy Malenkov, the tough, 50-year-old Politburocrat who has shot up through the party like a skunk cabbage (he weighs 250 Ibs.). In the past, the post of chief "reporter" has been held only by Lenin and Stalin. This signal honor is further evidence that Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack and long regarded in the West as Stalin's most probable successor, is moving closer & closer to the top. Malenkov used to be Stalin's personal secretary, is said to have a phenomenal memory capable of recalling...
...Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million in foreign exchange for Brazil), a U.S. Steel Brazilian subsidiary has been waiting four years while patriots argue whether it is too risky to have foreigners that...
...major miracle when any one man knew what the various cameras were doing at various times. In an attempt to keep the herd together, networks set up short-wave telephones, walkie-talkies, telephone switchboards, messenger squads-everything in the signal handbook except carrier pigeons and smoke signals...