Word: sos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...port motor backfired. Its forward cylinders went haywire. Explosion followed explosion. A lubricating line cracked and the oil caught. Panicked oilers tried to climb above decks, but the leaping flames caught them like crickets in a grass fire. Some one notified Radio Operator Filippo Perrona. He began tapping SOS. But within four minutes fire had reached the wireless room, in the topmost superstructure...
...world's biggest public school system, New York City's, has wallowed along like a superliner with a laming leak. The New York State Legislature and Mayor LaGuardia knocked $8,300,000 out of the schools' budget. The Board of Education at once hoisted an SOS ("Save Our Schools"), but the public paid little attention...
...Parents Associations and teachers' organizations thereupon began to raise alarms. They distributed more than 2,000,000 pamphlets among the State's citizens, made 54 radio broadcasts. When the Legislature convened last month, it got thousands of letters from indignant parents. To Governor Herbert Lehman were presented SOS petitions with 500,000 signatures. Result: several official and unofficial investigations to determine how badly the city's schools" had been damaged. By last week these investigations had established that the SOS was no false alarm...