Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Coast deaf-mute supply chief is redheaded, ham-handed William B. Sain, a wireless technician and diemaker who, aware of the dreary and dim cult lives of most of his 2,000 fellow Los Angeles deaf-mutes, decided after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they...
...Japs advance with a white flag then toss grenades. Some wear machine guns strapped to their backs and crouch down while comrades fire the weapons. They often use English. They catch names and will shout: "Mr. Manning, withdraw!" A Marine far out in front and reporting by "walkie-talkie" wireless was asked how things stood. The Japs were horning in, for the answer came in precise, clipped English: "My position is excellent, thank...
Before World War I he had set an altitude record (6,540 ft. in 1912), won the Mackay Trophy for the first use of wireless in military reconnaissance, became the first man to carry mail by air, and scared the pants off the wide-ranging horse cavalry of the day by flying 30 miles from College Park, Md. to Fort Meyer, Va. and back...
...Emperor furthermore agreed to give all possible aid to the British Army, to stage no private wars, to permit only the British and those to whom they give permission to fly over his country. The management of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway and the wireless station at Addis Ababa will be in the hands of the Commander in Chief of the British Army in Africa. The Army also received the right to use all Italian property in Ethiopia (assessed at $3 20,000,000-$360,000,000) without payment. To help guide the Negus' footsteps, British political advisers...
...various times the tower has supported a brass cannon for noonday salutes, wireless and television stations, an aerodynamics laboratory, a great Citroën sign, a mighty thermometer in electric lights. For years the tower's top contained the tiny apartment of its builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, pioneer steel-bridge engineer, who died...