Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sundry measures of price reduction have been tried, without signal success, with the purpose of lifting aviation out of its economic morass. Last week heroic methods were proposed by Erie P. Halliburton, president of Southwest...
...flames mount. Baluk, his stoic face agonized, lays by his tom-tom and draws his robe over his head in the inferno. But then the sentinels' signal fires flare. Baluk is dragged off the pyre still alive to lead the tribe against the milling, trampling, stampeding, incredible game herd. Dagwan is sent away for "the slow death" (starvation) while the tribe feasts and laughs and toboggans. The silent enemy, Hunger, snarls his defeat from the lowering arctic storm-scud...
...undergraduate at Harvard. Cary was connected with the Freshman Red Book, the Dramatic Club, the Lampoon, and the Harvard Monthly. During the Great War, he enlisted in July, 1917, served in the 301st Field Signal Battalion, and rose from the rank of private to sergeant. His service in France lasted from July, 1918 until...
...Louis Milestone ran away from the German school where his Russian parents had sent him, migrated to the U. S., got a job in a raincoat factory at $4 per week. Later he became handy man for a theatrical photographer, and learned more about photography in the U. S. Signal Corps during the War. The day before he was discharged he won $300 in the company craps game and while spending it on Broadway met a cinema producer who gave him a $20 job in his cutting room. He became cutting room editor, then wrote some scenarios, got into directing...
...Record hereby acknowledges its appreciation of such signal commendation...