Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Admiralty and Air Ministry admitted casualties aboard the 9,100-ton Southampton, the cruiser Edinburgh and the destroyer Mohawk, and said an admiral's barge and a light tender were sunk by the Nazi bombs...
...Berlin and the blackout there was one hundred percent, really pitch black," reported a neutral diplomat who last week arrived in Paris. "By comparison with Berlin, what the French call a 'blackout' has left Paris still La Ville Lumière (the City of Light...
...super-stolid North Germany, people's nerves seemed to be standing the blackout strain of bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights and tuneful night life. The ban on dancing was lifted, Vienna cabarets sprang to life, the street lights were on and last week the Viennese, incorrigibly light-hearted and easygoing, even tore from their windowpanes the dark paper pasted on when the Führer ordered blackouts...
Most widespread innovation for 1940 are the Sealed-Beam headlights on 95% of the models (result of cooperation between the industry, lamp & lens manufacturers). Lens, bulb and reflector are sealed into a single unit. The new lamps light the road without blinding. Another big development is the "Hydra-Matic" drive (see Oldsmobile), which dooms the clutch pedal, lets the accelerator control...
...were forced to recommend their dismissals--after the manner of the Walsh-Sweezy Case-- because there was no other possible expedient. All this is beside the point that they are leaving behind them gaping holes during the next four or five years, before the new teaching geniuses come to light...