Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Pravda, the loud-yapping signal-caller of Communist journalism, recently blasted U.S. college football as the brutal product of predatory capitalists, i.e., college trustees, Sportwriter Nat Low of Los Angeles' Communist People's World took the handoff and scampered down the field with the ball...
...scraped up enough cash to start another entirely separate company at Bangor, Mich. ("out of the high tax and labor shortage area"). There they started to produce for war. They manufactured such war goods as radio crystals and control units for target planes and eventually became one of the Signal Corps' biggest suppliers. At war's end, Swanson hopped into the rapidly expanding television industry, and opened a Los Angeles plant to produce tuners...
Behind it the 6:13 rushed closer & closer, its coaches performing a rattling dance upon their trucks, its crowded passengers and their upraised newspapers swaying in rhythmic unison. Its engineer, a 55-year-old railroader named Benjamin Pokorney, fled past a stop signal 3,516 feet from the stalled 6:09 at 60 miles an hour, apparently gambling (as other engineers have before him) that the track ahead would clear in time. He had only 850 feet of rails left when his headlight told him the terrible truth...
...every now and then, results in insomnia. Says Arthur Godfrey, who is an enthusiastic Stanton admirer: "We each have a phone beside our beds. When he can't sleep, or I can't, one calls the other. We ring once and hang up-that's the signal. If the other's awake, he calls back and says, 'What the hell are you doing...
...York State's Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein looked behind this impressive front to see if the state's security laws were being violated. What he found caused him to run up a danger signal for would-be investors. Two of the company's chief stockholders and promoters, said Goldstein, had police records. One was Maurice E. Young, who was convicted and jailed 20 years ago in Canada for stock manipulation. The other was Joseph H. Hirshhorn, twice convicted and fined "for violating the foreign-exchange laws of Canada...