Word: shunts
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Every time Powel Crosley Jr. gets sidetracked, he builds the side line into a main line. Having built five main lines, he appeared last week about ready to shunt into a sixth...
...tube set, he found he could buy parts and make one himself for $35. Result was Crosley Radio Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, now approximately fourth largest U.S. radio producer. From the vocation of making radios to the avocation of radio broadcasting was a short shunt and the upshot was station WLW, most powerful in the world along with Moscow's RVI. WLW sends out such big charges (500,000 watts) that neighbors report hearing hillbilly bands in their drainpipes and lighting electric bulbs with wires stuck in nearby ground...
...world anxious for peace must turn from Hitler's time-worn protestations to England's belatedly firm stand. Britain's unequivocal warning that she will fight if Hitler marches may shunt the Sudeten crises back to the channels of discussion and conciliation. If so, it may prove to be the first effective caveat to Fascism and permit us to hope that the victory of democracy is really coming...
...vivid blue, red-striped uniforms, with sabres flashing, pennants streaming, charged past in review before U. S. officers and guests at Peking's Breckinridge Field. It was their last review. With the Japanese patrolling the city, U. S. Army authorities decided to disband and dismount the Horse Marines, shunt half the personnel to Tientsin, transfer the remainder to other marine units...
...constructive strategy. Instead of parking in the middle of the President's road, to be mangled by the popular fervor he arouses when given a solid, reactionary opposition, the legislators are attacking his flank. The Sommers Bill granting full retirement pay to Supreme Court justices is an attempt to shunt the worthy aims of the administration into acceptable paths...