Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High voltages are least likely to be,fatal because they do not cause heart fibrillation, and because they usually throw the victim clear of the circuit. Some 88% of those shocked by 40,000 volts or more recover. Engineer Poehler suggests that to free an individual from a live circuit it is better to use one's foot than a hand; the current is then less likely to reach the heart or respiratory nervous system...
...human being's vulnerability to electric shock is determined largely by skin resistance. Water reduces skin resistance more than a hundredfold. About the most dangerous possible electric shock is one from an ordinary, Go-cycle A.C. house circuit, received by anybody with wet hands or feet. Even at only 100 volts, it means certain death...
...order of preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young...
Despite the blighting effects of war, U.S. tournament golf is enjoying an unprecedented boom. Fortnight ago professionals who were still free to travel finished the spring circuit with some record scores. Last week they set out on the summer circuit after some record prizes...
...named from a form of war neurosis peculiar to the region where the hazards of flying the Hump are in every man's mind-Hump-Happy. Last week Hump-Happy was on tour. From its purely local start, it had humped through hundreds of performances on the jungle circuit. From Burma's border to the African Gold Coast it is the Army's No. 1 entertainment item...