Word: signalmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned her snub, sea-battered nose out into the grey wilderness of wintry Atlantic. Green water pounded the corvette's narrow decks, doused her open bridge where the hooded skipper stood squinting into the mist. Now and then he gave a quiet command for relay to engine room, signalmen and the helmsman below. The Angry was heading back to sea, guarding another convoy of rusty freighters, laden with men and supplies for distant battlefronts...
...Byrnes and the Department of Agriculture, petitioned the ICC to cancel the 6% freight-and 10% passenger-rate increases granted last spring. In Chicago this week the five operating Brotherhoods (trainmen, engineers, etc.) are expected to ask for a 10-15% increase in wages. The 15 non-operating Brotherhoods (signalmen, track workers, etc.) have already demanded a wage boost of 20? an hour, minimum pay 70? an hour. The proposed reduction in rates based on current traffic would reduce the railroads' gross income by $500 million per year; the wage increases, if granted in full, would add some...
After the first stunning shock, the defenders swung into action. Spotters in the Navy Yard signal tower picked up the attackers, flashed air-raid warnings via visual signals. Working coolly under enemy bombs and machine-gun fire and shrapnel from defending anti-aircraft batteries, the signalmen routed scores of orders to ships standing out to sea or fighting from berths...
Army engineers eventually cut roads to the main positions; signalmen laid telephone cables. Otherwise, the artillerymen did it all themselves...
R.O.T.C. men will be rotated among a large number of duties in order to acquaint them with all the complicated workings of modern naval vessels. They will serve in the ranks, as section leaders and division officers, deckmen, signalmen, steersmen, engineers, navigation officers, and gunners...