Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged an impromptu parade, and a pretty girl named Kay Kissinger was elected "Miss Drought Breaker...
...Fuse, No Fuss. A circuit breaker that replaces electric fuses in homes and can't burn out was put on sale by Mechanical Products, Inc. of Jackson, Mich. Called Mini-Breaker, it cuts off current whenever there is an overload or short circuit, needs only a push of a button to restore service. Price: $1.50, or four...
After five days the storm abated; two days of calm and clear followed, and then came a new hurricane, wilder than the first. One breaker flooded the Miru's 17-year-old diesel engine, which operated the bilge pump. For two days, Arrow, Donovan, and Davis took turns in a bucket brigade, carting water from the cabin to the deck...
...labor record, said that in 1946, while he was Chief of Staff, he was directed to return to Washington from vacation to assume command of railroad strikers who were to be drafted. Said Ike: "With a bitter protest, I refused ... I was a soldier and not a strike breaker." (Next day Truman denied Ike's story, though he could not deny that in 1946 he had asked Congress for the power to draft railway strikers...
...France, no one who likes to eat and sleep well would think of setting out on an auto trip without a fat little red book in his pocket. The book: the Guide Michelin, maker and breaker of restaurant reputations all over France and one of the smartest promotion stunts ever dreamed...