Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...
...Pennsylvania insisted that there was nothing wrong with the trestle, that the engineer had disregarded an order to reduce speed before the temporary spur. But the railroad admitted that there had been no signal lights. It was not Pennsylvania practice...
...superintendent of the Pennsylvania's New York division retorted with the callous disavowal of responsibility that commuters had learned to expect from their railroads: "We never intended to put a signal light there at all. We still don't intend to install signal lights at either end of the detour because it's still a temporary project. The railroad makes many . . . changes without notifying the ICC . . . After all, it's our own property...
...Combat Arms (Armor, Artillery, Combat Engineers, Infantry, Signal Corps...
Square-jawed Captain James Vernon Harvester, 30, commander last year of the 315th Signal Construction Battalion, had always wanted to be a minister. In 1945, after a year in the South Pacific, he began studying, earned his D.D. from Emory University, put in two years as a pastor in Florida and Georgia...