Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico experiments were done by Project Cirrus (sponsored by the Army Signal Corps and the Office of Naval Research in consultation with General Electric Research Laboratory), and the experimenters tried a more subtle method...
From Maxim's corner, Manager Kearns kept up a stream of chatter: "Step back. Get out of it, Joey." His fighter, one ear cocked for instructions, did as he was told. In the seventh, Joey got the go-ahead signal. He began exploding left hooks and right crosses against Mills's jaw. He loosened two of Freddie's teeth; the champ's handlers fished them out of his mouth after the round. They fished out a third tooth after the eighth...
There were indications that the President had all but decided to signal a go-ahead to the scientists. If they were successful-as they believed they might be-the H-bomb would draw on the sun's method of transforming hydrogen into helium (TIME, Jan. 16) to produce an explosion dwarfing the atomic bomb blasts loosed at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini, Eniwetok. One such H-bomb might spread destruction over a radius of ten miles...
Bringing the Americans back was one of Bermúdez' shrewdest strokes. The first group to begin work, in June 1949, was the Mexican American Independent Oil Co. (C.I.M.A.), an operating unit jointly set up by the Signal Oil & Gas Co., the American Independent Oil Co. and hustling California Oilman Ed Pauley, who had had previous experience in Mexico. C.I.M.A. was allotted an unexploited area along the Gulf in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche for exploration and drilling. After payment of their expenses, the Americans will collect 15 to 18¼% of the new wells' income...
...engineers, making daily experimental color telecasts from Washington, found that Killy had set up a Cellophane wheel, driven by an old phonograph motor, before his TV screen. Once the wheel was synchronized with the transmitted signal he got a six-inch color picture. "Anyone can do it," said Killy of his makeshift converter. "All the technical stuff you need is to know how to hook up an adapter switch and regulate the speed of the color wheel." Killy's opinion of color TV itself: "I think it's easier on your eyes...