Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduced the temptation to digression and disorder. Watkins had made it impossible for McCarthy to grab a microphone and run away with the hearings; the sound system was so installed that only two mikes could be turned on at a time-and then only on signal from the committee chairman...
...subversion. But they hold that Anti-Communist McCarthy has consistently used Communists' methods, e.g., the false charge of treason. In the process, they note, he has attacked a wide range of loyal and respected Americans, has seriously disrupted the operations of the U.S. State Department and the Army Signal Corps, and has diverted attention from the real problems of fighting Communism abroad...
...broad sense, the meeting might be said to signal the arrival of a time in which the U.S. press in general recognizes that religious news has become news in the accepted city-room sense of the word. Scores of reporters who had never before written a religion story were on the job for wire services and major dailies around the world...
When the televised sham battle was over, Major General George I. Back, chief signal officer, hailed it as the beginning of a new era: "Just as the introduction of gunpowder . . . revolutionized the weapons of ground warfare, television will inject an entirely new concept into military communications." Also on hand was Brigadier General (ret.) David Sarnoff, whose Radio Corporation of America had collaborated with the Signal Corps in developing combat TV. Sarnoff also saw "a new era in tactical communications . . . which will enable a commander to keep a watchful eye on every section of the battlefield." General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief...
...high-wing, single-engined Cessna monoplane that could fly at 120-140 m.p.h., watched sales climb back to $14 million in 1948. When Korea hit, Cessna's civilian planes became L19 artillery spotters. Observers used L-19s to spot camouflaged tanks hidden from 600-m.p.h. jets. Signal Corpsmen slung rolls of wire beside the wings, hedgehopped over the hills laying communications at 70 m.p.h. When President Eisenhower visited Korea, he flew to the front in a Cessna...