Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightning. But bald, compact Banker Herbert Henry Lehman, who served under Franklin Roosevelt as lieutenant governor of New York from 1929 to 1933, and succeeded him in Albany when he went to the White House, has yet to be overpowered by his old friend Frank. Since Governor Lehman saw fit to attack the President's Court Plan last year, he has become an increasingly candid friend. Last week, independent Governor Lehman abruptly swept some of the Administration's political calculations into a cocked...
...there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After dark, many men, women, children, cows and chickens in three counties saw electric light for the first time in their lives...
...Japanese Army, definitely balked in its advance along the Lunghai Railway by the muddy floodwaters of the Yellow River, last week saw its campaign to capture Hankow, operating headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government, temporarily taken over by the Navy...
...telecast was not on the air but NBC engineers were watching the cabled tests in an RCA Building control room. While the camera was turning, the engineers were concerned with other parts of their reception apparatus. Death for the first time flashed across a television screen. But no one saw the passing picture...
...English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went to see McKitterick, asked...