Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beverly Hills gallery last week, a traffic light and a pendulum railway-crossing signal stood guard at Warshaw's latest one-man show. Most of the 35 pictures, with such titles as Broken Figure and Traffic Signal and Bones on the Street, were focused on the drama of Los Angeles' traffic. Wrecked Automobiles was a low-keyed tangle of telescoped cars stretched along the canvas with the careful arrangement of an abstract still life by Braque. In others, blinking lights and warning barriers stood ironic watch over prone figures with the cleanly severed limbs of antique statues...
...Sent out the first calls for National Guardsmen. Surprisingly, in view of the urgency of the situation, it called up none of the 27 Guard divisions. The first calls were confined to such non-divisional Guard outfits as signal, ordnance and supply units...
British Physicist Klaus Fuchs. The FBI said Rosenberg had been an important cog in the machinery, working directly under Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York. An electrical engineer (C.C.N.Y., class of '39), Rosenberg had been an inspector for the War Department's Signal Service until early 1945, when he was fired for Communist affiliations. He broke off all open contacts with the party, quit subscribing to the Daily Worker and set up as the owner of a small, non-union machine shop in Manhattan. But the FBI kept its many eyes...
...mean revolution. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak told Parliament last week: "In a few minutes in the great political quarrel which has divided Belgium for ten years, you are going to win a game. In a few minutes you will have recalled Leopold to the throne and given the signal for disturbances which are going to tear Belgium apart." But Parliament's majority, the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, was stubborn. It had won its absolute majority in the recent election (with a popular vote of 46.74%), and it was determined to recall the King, six years in exile...
...Needles. Omnirange uses "very high frequency," is static-free. It is complicated electronically, but it makes things simple for the pilot. Each omni sends out a radio signal that is different for each direction from the station. Receiving apparatus on the airplane detects the variation in the signal, and so tells the pilot where he is in relation to the station...