Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night shift of a chemical plant: he had to keep awake, watch gauges, see that no fire started. One night, after one too many drinks, he fell asleep, woke just in time to check a threatening blaze a short-circuit had started. Because a feature-writer for the London Tribune happened to be in the vicinity and short of copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with a check for ?500. Charlie was a sensible lad and kept his shirt on through all the hullabaloo, but when...
...relatives of the dead could do was sue on grounds of negligence, as did the relatives of 14 killed in a chartered Colonial Western Airways plane in 1929, collecting $86,000. Last week privately chartered planes became common carriers too. in a decision in Philadelphia's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals by Judge Joseph Buffington...
...John L. Dodge organized the Trotting Horse Club to revive a country gentleman's sport they feared was dying. For 53 summers the trotting descendants of the great U.S. trotter Hambletonian 10, sire of the 1850's, had pounded around the dirt tracks of the Grand Circuit: now bounded by Cleveland, Toledo, Salem, N.H., Goshen, N.Y., Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, N.Y., Indianapolis, and Lexington, Ky. The Trotting Horse Club members established as climax to the season the $50,000 Hambletonian Stake, run in mid-August at Goshen. In 1930, 7,000 trotting men and bumpkins saw a descendant...
Sound waves are more easily conveyed through some solids, among them human bone, than through air. The devices announced last week simply short-circuit the outer and middle ear, transmit sound vibrations directly to the auditory nerves via head bones. Sound waves are picked up by a transmitter, passed through a pocket amplifier to a tiny oscillator, which a head band holds snugly against the mastoid bone behind the ear. (Sonotone's improvement consisted in eliminating an oscillator "button" which protruded uncomfortably against the head...
...CIRCUIT COURT 1-Air. Justice Joseph W. Cox presiding; R. E. Lee Goff, clerk. No. 79326. Frank E. Bonner vs. Washington Times Co.; trial resumed and cause given to jury; verdict for plaintiff for $45,000. Attys., John W. Guider, Edmund L. Jones, Frank J. Hogan-William E. Leahy, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman...