Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Prime Minister Nehru, looking over this "very impressive but very ugly iron city": "When I look upon this plant, 1 am filled with great exhilaration. I have a picture before my eyes of a new India coming into existence." He then lowered a red railroad signal and a gaily decorated locomotive chuffed away, pulling the first 14-car shipment of fertilizer...
...weekly broadcast from New York to his homeland over Radio Free Europe, ex-Editor Peroutka sadly said: "The suspension of Lidove Noviny is a signal for the remaining Czech writers to take leave finally of whatever last illusions they may have...
King Farouk and Egypt's wealthy ruling pashas had read the danger signal in the daylong, $300 million mob orgy fortnight ago in Cairo's streets. It was no spontaneous outburst of patriots angered by the British troops who killed 46 Egyptian policemen at Ismailia the day before (TIME, Feb. 4). The riot was blueprinted and timed to the instant. Rioters struck at 220 different points within 30 minutes. Jeep-borne leaders coordinated the separate gangs, providing target directions, fuel and weapons...
Magic Trifle. Bell Laboratory has a two-stage transistor amplifier, complete with resistors and condensers, that is potted in a cylinder of plastic as big as a ¾-inch section cut from a fountain pen. When a faint voice current is fed to this trifle, it gives a signal loud enough to blast the eardrum. Scores of such amplifiers could be packed in a coffee can. One device at Bell has transistors that do the work of 44 vacuum tubes. The whole thing is housed on a panel no bigger than the page of a novel...
Kirkland House eaters entered the Deacon dining hall last night with some serious inisgivings. The menu, a signal departure from customary College fare, included...