Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Senate gallery in Harrisburg. "I happen to be the President of the Senate, not you!" "Boo," chorused some 500 men, women & children as they pounded the brass gallery railings with sticks. "Quit stalling! Pass bills! Pass bills!" they screamed, raining their sticks down on the Senate floor below...
Greatest REA triumph was the ramshackle old cow barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they...
...Hamilton declared that in 1924, when Democrats dodged the Ku Klux Klan issue at their National Convention, Alf Landon had supported William Allen White's anti-Klan candidacy for Governor of Kansas, and he himself had run for the State Legislature on an anti-Klan ticket. Elected Republican Floor Leader of the House, said he, he had fought and defeated a bill legalizing the Klan. In 1926 he was elected Speaker of the House over Klan opposition. "In 1928 I ran for Governor. Although the Klan had practically passed out of existence, there was strong Klan sentiment in many...
...River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...
After three more spins of the wheel steam hissed from the boiler, and the emblems began to twirl slowly. After that the smile did not vanish from Mr Ford's face except when a photographer dropped his flash bulb, scattering magnesium foil across the immaculate floor...