Word: signalmen
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...Dienbienphu radio operator added his piece with no show of emotion: "There is fighting around the door. The general has ordered me to destroy this equipment. Say hello to Paris for me. Au revoir." Then silence. At GHQ, staff officers, generals, signalmen and clerks were leaden with a dread despair. "It was like hearing the tap on the hull of a submarine that lies helpless at the bottom of the sea," said one who listened...
...artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning in the chase. One by one the other cats disappeared or died, but Momi stayed on, even condescending to learn a few parlor tricks (like raising a paw on command) for the signalmen in Tower...
...water, the carriers in the bull's-eyes of each. Side by side the two forces steamed along, code flags dipping and bobbing, signal lights blinking. One problem of the exercise was to develop a "joint language of command" understandable by both tars and bluejackets. On Mainbrace, U.S. signalmen no longer reported signal pennants "two-blocked" when they are hauled to the end of the yard. Instead they used the British term "close-up." In return, the Royal Navy has agreed to spell words like "harbour" without...
...workers, members of 15 non-operating unions (clerks, signalmen, freight handlers, etc.), had asked for a 25?-an-hour boost, retroactive to Dec. 1. The railroads met them half way with 12½, but wanted it retroactive only to March 1. The final agreement, engineered by Presidential Assistant John Steelman: 12½ retroactive...
...partying with them and staying at the same hotels. Last week, after each day's session, the Commies went off by themselves to their own hangouts. For parliamentary maneuvers, they had devised a set of hand signals like those used by the "tick tack men" (gamblers' signalmen) at British race tracks...