Word: searchlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaf into Local. Tooting through the night, Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways' proud International Limited (Montreal-Chicago) was brought to an unscheduled halt near Dundas, Ont. Ahead the engine's searchlight picked out a dark jumbled mass. Walking down the tracks trainmen heard moans, screams, shouts. Farther on they saw scattered Christmas presents, a blood-spattered doll with smashed legs, a fox terrier whimpering over a man's mangled body, another body without a head. Upended on the brink of a 150ft, cliff was a wooden railroad coach with screaming people inside. From the splintered debris...
Continuing its embarrassing inquiries into the more shadowy closets of the nation's banking circles, the Senate Committee has announced itself ready to turn the searchlight on the House of Morgan. The investigation has been temporarily halted until the Senate grants additional power to the Committee. This is seems likely to do, in view of the ready support it has given so far. Washington has shown that though it may be Wall Street's mistress, love blows alternately hot and cold...
REVOLUTION : 1776 - John Hyde Preston-Harcourt, Brace ($2.90). Dramatic searchlight on schoolboy history...
...without search-warrants, police began a campaign of bursting into homes and meeting places of Communists all over Germany, ransacking them for treasonable documents which they claimed to find in quantities. Communists retorted by firing from rooftops and darkened windows on their tormentors, caused the Berlin police to create "searchlight squads." Before the week was out 26 Germans-Communists, police and Fascists-had been murdered for reasons purely political (mostly in savage side-street affrays...
...Jena, to make Zeiss prism binoculars in the U. S., trading Bausch manufacturing for Zeiss research facilities. The deal held good until the War, when Bausch perforce perfected the U. S. manufacture of fine optical glass, made 3,500 binoculars a week (besides periscopes, range finders, gun sight telescopes, searchlight mirrors). War demands mechanized the manufacture of microscopes. Prices fell from over $1,000 for hand-worked ones to $100 and $200 for machine-made ones...