Word: resets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extension of the President's power to reset the gold content of the dollar as low as 50% of its old value (present value 59?). The Administration has not used this power, has no present plans for using it except in some emergency if the pound sterling and the franc should collapse. The Senate proposed to let this power (a threat of inflation) expire-in effect, to take it back into the hands of Congress until it is again needed...
...decked over with reinforced concrete slabs, the new road and its 30-year-old foundations are warranted hurricane proof by Government engineers. FERA and the Red Cross have built concrete storm shelters along the route, each supplied with emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks, among them hundreds of former cigar makers. The new bridged section completes the170-mile Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West, makes Key West the terminus of U. S. 1. most heavily-traveled road in the nation...
...appealing little girl who has trouble walking because of a poorly act broken leg. They become fast friends, and O'Malley learns that she is the daughter of one John Phillips (Humphry Bogart) whom he has railroaded to the State Prison. Realizing his shortcomings, he has a famous doctor reset the girl's leg, obtains a parolo for Phillips, and, in short, "goes soft...
Connected with each electric chronometer is a regular clock with an automatic adjuster. If the current should be shut off and the telechron fall behind, it is not reset in the ordinary manner, but the automatic adjuster makes it function at twice its normal speed until it has caught up with the regular clock...
...across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling. It was broken in two places, five inches above the ankle. Doctors who reset it at a St. Petersburg hospital doubted whether Maranville would ever play baseball again...