Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging at 11:15 p. m. under the twinkling lamp of the north portico, Senator Robinson furnished a summary for public consumption: "It is expected a conference agreement will be reached on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill and also on the TVAmendments. It is also expected conference agreements will be reached on the Alcohol Control Bill, the Gold Suits Bill and, of course, the Tax Bill. I think there is a fair chance of reaching an agreement on the Utility Bill. If the Guffey Coal Bill passes the House it will be taken up in the Senate...
Fortnight ago the selectmen of Marblehead voted to allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit...
...lifted, the selectmen who allowed new color plates to be made were defeated at the next election. It was therefore news indeed last week when the selectmen of Marblehead met and voted to allow Forbes Lithograph Co. of Everett, Mass, to make four-color process plates for a Lynn lamp company's advertising campaign...
...then drawn directly into the combustion chamber. There is no carburetor. The exhaust is almost entirely clear, indicating nearly complete combustion. Although they have no test data to prove it, Solene's sponsors think it will mean fuel economy and increased flying range for airplanes. A wick lamp filled with it burned seven times as long as with kerosene...
...honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There he would spend four easy days before...