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Word: circuit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hooked to a national circuit, WHAS was busy day and night directing local relief workers for miles up and down the river. Frankfort, where 1.500 families took to the hills when the Kentucky river flooded the State capital, was reported to be the scene of the catastrophe's most brutal and piteous event. As the water rose in the Frankfort Reformatory. 2,900 panic-stricken prisoners began fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell & High Water | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...stock with them in the baggage car. Judge Keifer has no time to write answers to the hundreds of requests for advice he gets from breeders every year but most of the letters stick in his head. He answers them verbally when he meets their senders on the pigeon-circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pigeons In Peoria | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Because most States have different laws restricting truck sizes, interstate truckers are as hampered as railroads would be if each State required different gauge tracks. Last week in Columbia, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decided that South Carolina's limitations (example: goin, width, though most States allow 96-in.) were an "unreasonable burden" upon truck commerce insofar as hard-surfaced main roads were concerned, granted truckers a permanent injunction against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wide Trucks | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Although he was in Dover, O. the son of who traveled and vaudeville. His J. C. Nugent, is it when he is not on Broadway motion pictures. been a child actor honorable Keith- circuit, so he today to starring in productions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHT | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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