Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with the introduction of spring schedules and Daylight Saving Time, U.S. railroads were making a fresh bid to save their skins. Schedules were speeded up, fares slashed, air-conditioning increased. And exciting new equipment was being installed all over the country-so-called "neo-trains" which are exciting in performance as well as appearance. Some are Dieselectrics, some have streamlined electric engines, some are Iron Horses in new harness. All are fast, colorful, ultramodern...
...dwell upon the harm done by inadequate lighting. The barrage of the utility companies' advertisements during recent years must have opened all eyes to these dangers. Although the library committee seems to ignore it, the age of dimly-lighted libraries went out with the arrival of such innovations as daylight bulbs and indirect illumination. Nor are these inventions the extravagant, terrifying arrangements that Harvard must believe them to be. That they are desirable impresses any student who has to spend a long period of time stooped across one of the tables in the reading-room trying to bring his book...
...idea originated in 1929 when T. A. T. used silent pictures on a few experimental runs, then dropped the scheme when passengers proved indifferent. But those were daylight runs...
...called for "radical reform." "There must be an end," he declared, "to the reckless exploitation of human resources and the trafficking in the health and the happiness of Canadian citizens. There must be an end to the idea that a workman should be held to his labors throughout the daylight hours." Since Mr. Bennett is even richer than Mr. Roosevelt and extremely close to Canada's great Capitalists, the rest of his speech might be said to parallel exactly what has been heard from the White House...
Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...