Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session. The 3 o'clock gong found members shrugging their shoulders at the end of one more lackadaisical, profitless day. But in the offices of Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co., the gong was the signal for a burst of activity. Dillon, Read headed a group of investment bankers and brokers with 500,000 shares of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) common to sell (for the estate of Oil Heir Edward Stephen Harkness). The bankers got busy on telephone and wire. Two hours later the stock...
...ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
...them through their paces in rooms hung with wires like a balloon barrage, with special supersonic recorders. In finding out what prevents bat crackups, the scientists did not mutilate the creatures, used blindfolds, ear plugs, mouth gags. Last week Galambos & Griffin reported that the pitch of the bat signal is around 50,000 vibrations a second.* Flying in free space, the bats utter about 25 cries a second. Near an obstacle the rate shoots...
...undergraduate an excuse for leaving his immediate future unplanned. Math A and probably Physics B or C can be begun on February 2 of this year, and can be followed by training in the summer and fall that will culminate in Cruft Laboratory courses and a commission in the Signal Corps. Men who have had sufficient physics and math already may start the first half of Physics 3 after mid-years. It is also likely that an intensive Japanese course will be offered in February and a Chinese course in June, both sufficient to meet Intelligence Corps standards within...
Jock, son of a British Army captain in India, was sitting in police headquarters one day in 1898 when four bombs went off: signal that the Spanish-American War had begun. Said Jock: "In a few minutes the phone will ring and it'll be Tarbell telling me that I'm to cover the war." In a few minutes the phone rang. It was Tarbell telling him to cover...