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...learned the lesson that it must produce principles and program besides being against and joyriding on mistakes, it has not read history. . . . There is talk of fusion and coalition. Let me make but one remark on that. It is a result devoutly to be wished for. But the people fuse or coalesce around ideas and ideals, not around political bargains or stratagems. If the Republican Party meets the needs and aspirations of the people who are opposed to the New Deal, they will fuse and coalesce and not before. They only join in the march if they know where...
Stepping to the switchboard, Mr. Scott announced, "And now I'll show you the . . ." but nothing happened although he had manipulated a dozen switches and plugs. "Hmmm," said Mr. Scott. He revealed that his invention would blow a fuse under certain complex electrical conditions. "Yes, that's one of Matilda's idiosyncrasies," he remarked...
...weight of ice on them, flapping in the wind till the high voltage lines nearby, on which they struck, short-circuited like torches, with the blast of a million electric chairs, That was when Slim, after Red's body fell across the wires and exploded like a fuse, left Cally and went up the tower again...
...they won four games in a row in two preliminary playoff series. Against the Red Wings, the Rangers stretched their string to five, lost the second game, won the third. Red Wing heroes of the last two games in addition to Lewis, onetime Red Wing captain, were Marty Barry, fuse of Detroit's famed "dynamite line," who scored the goal that won the fourth game, 1-to-0, and the first and third goals in the fifth; and Goalie Earl Robertson who, recruited from a minor-league team to replace Smith, got major credit for the Red Wings...
Apparently the fuse cap on the shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy...