Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes before, Canadian National's crack Maple Leaf express (Chicago-Montreal) had shot through an open switch at a-mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
...rear of the waiting room between four sturdy Ionic columns President Roosevelt found his second line of defense, smiling Pat McKenna who has worked about the White House for 31 years. His job is to switch visitors to their proper destinations: some out of the White House altogether to the departments, others to see burly Assistant Secretary Stephen T. Early who handles the Press; still others to the reception room for delegations of little wigs calling on the President; and a chosen few, who are destined to see the President personally and privately, into the office of Assistant Secretary Marvin...
...Equally important, from an operating standpoint, is the L. & N. fight with Federal Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman which President Hill inherited. Fortnight ago three Federal judges in Chicago found against L.& N. in its effort to switch crack Florida-Chicago trains from debt-ridden Chicago & Eastern Illinois to New York Central's "Big Four." To the U. S. Supreme Court L. & N. may appeal the court's decision upholding Mr. Eastman...
...both sides have submitted their speeches to the British Broadcasting Company for approval, the company will be in a position to switch the debate off in England, at least if either of the parties departs from its submitted text
Most of the "inside" dopesters favor Navy as the new enemy and the rumor has arisen that in the future the Navy and the Army will alternate on the Crimson's schedules. That is, Harvard would play West Point one year, but switch to Annapolis the next, then come back to the Army for the third year. Of course if this is done the Committee will still have to find a team to take the place of Holy Cross, and just what this new outfit will be no one except the H.A.A. officials know at present. One college that...