Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average lightning bolt has an amperage of some 100,000, a voltage of some 100,000,000. Amperage is the amount of current, voltage the pressure that drives...
...Widow (by John Charles Brownell) is the vehicle which oldtime Tragedienne Pauline Frederick (Madam X) put together in San Diego, Calif, in May 1933. After a 13-month drive across the western plains, it arrives on Broadway creaking like a stagecoach. So familiar has Miss Frederick become with every bolt and board in its rusty structure that she is inclined to overact, grimacing broadly at every tiresome turn, popping wide her eyes and flapping her hands at each sorry nuance...
...ranges, refrigerators (costing less than $80), water heaters (costing less than $65) suitable for rural sale. He invited several advertising agencies to submit designs for a TVA emblem and suggest plans for an advertising campaign. Chosen were Young & Rubicam's emblem (a blue hand holding a red lightning bolt with the inscription "TVA-Electricity for All") and plan of campaign. The campaign: window displays, demonstrations, pamphlets distributed by franked mail...
...means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt and keel to -Henry Herbermann for $1,071,431; 2) Mr. Herbermann, under the Jones-White Act, borrowed from the Shipping Board $7,122,750 to build four passenger liners, got his loans extended later although Export's debts exceeded its assets 3-to-1; 3) despite large payments...
...Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record. Steersman Colgate, son of the late Soapman Gilbert Colgate, learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest to the Colgate team was the Adirondack Bobsled Club team, piloted by Donna Fox. On its last run the Fox sled...