Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ryan to Lyon. The signal for peace on the East Coast came one morning last week during a midwatch hour in a New York hotel. Cyrus S. Ching, federal mediator and peacemaker, had put the shipowners in one room and the A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
...Girls is a place I haven't been to or thought of since the spring of 1946, but the other night memories of it, in a hurry, like returning memories always are, came rushing back. I was on the telephone, calling Radcliffe, listening to that old black busy signal that I know so well, when suddenly I remembered everything. In a flash, of course...
...President Harry Truman safely back & forth to the office wing of the White House, which he will continue to use, Washington police were installing special signal lights at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Jackson Place. When the President crosses Pennsylvania Avenue, a master switch will stop traffic in all directions...
...unmanned "sounding balloon" has risen to 140,000 feet (26½-miles), breaking the altitude record for any man-made object except rockets. So the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced last week. The balloon, released over Belmar, N.J. carried 2½ pounds of instruments which radioed data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. The maximum altitude was deduced from the pressure signals; the balloon disappeared behind clouds at about 40,000 feet, was not seen again...
...continuing under his accelerated academic program, the 23-year old signal-caller from Worcester could graduate in June. But with enough eligibility time left for another season of football, he has decided to help mix Valpey's black magic for another year...