That example certainly isn't clear.
I don't think you need the kill -CONT, as far as I can tell the -USR1 will
display the info and just carry on without
any other requirement.
So it's not obvious to me what the kill $pid in the original example is
supposed to do, if you look at the info page
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man page dd - Sending USR1 signal
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