Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Engineers at WHRB started on the transmitter two weeks ago, on the design of Harold Dorshug, chief engineer of WEEI in Boston. Besides giving a clearer signal, the device may cut out much of the static listeners have been complaining about...
Last Word. In Old Hickory, Tenn., a motorist stopped at a red light inf the middle of the night, could not go forward because of icy roads when it turned green, left his car, walked home, got his pistol, returned and shot out the signal light...
...before, with fatal results: to the Kaiser and to Hitler, both of whom had been sure that "America would not intervene." The U.S. had announced "in substance," said Dewey, that it would not defend Korea, "and again the aggressor moved in." The Wherry resolution would be taken "as a signal that the U.S. has hauled down its flag...
...units seven out of ten days. When the G-4 mentioned the lack of refrigerators, Ridgway snapped, "The winter will give you time to work out the refrigeration problem." Back at his headquarters, he called in to his aide, Lieut. Colonel Walter Winton, "Walter, get word to Signal Corps to brush up on message pickups...
Reflection on Saturday night's fire in Claverly Hall has prompted several observations which may seem not insignificant. Apparently there is no audible fire signal that could have been sounded inside the building to warn its occupants. When some student eventually discovered the long-smouldering blaze, he was merely able to bang on a few doors on the floor and shout a word of warning, since the smoke soon became densely acrid. Shortly, however, the operation of several sprinkler heads rang a gong on the building's exterior near the front sidewalk, but this could not be heard in many...