Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstration reached a major climax as 50,000 loyal subjects massed before His Majesty who stood with one hand on a switch of gold. The switch would start motors to roll away a great royal curtain of green and gold from the mouth of the tunnel. In solemn, kingly words which thrilled every listening subject throughout the Empire His Majesty christened the Mersey tunnel Queensway after Her Majesty and declared...
...this prayerful ending a hush gripped the throng. Click. The King-Emperor had closed the gold switch during his speech. Slowly as he spoke the great curtain rolled away disclosing the arched entrance to Queensway. Amid wave on wave of cheering His Majesty drove with the Queen-Empress by his side through the gleaming new arch and down under the Mersey with transatlantic liners riding at anchor over his royal head...
...condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world...
Last week Manhattan's huge Equitable Building at No. 120 Broadway announced that it would abandon its oil heating system, switch back to anthracite coal. Prime reason for the change was the fact that fuel oil stocks have been reduced 20% since September to a ten-year low, with a consequent rise in "Bunker C" prices from $1.05 to $1.80 per bbl. To the oil industry Equitable's decision meant not only the loss of 70,000 bbl. worth of business annually, but a dangerous precedent...
...sell & switch" racket: A bogus stockselling crew obtains the stockholders list of a reputable company (the ''leads''), hires telephone salesmen (the "openers'') to win their confidence of certain selected shareholders on the list (the "prospects"). Then high-pressure salesmen arrive to tip off the prospect that his stock is being "hammered" by bear operators persuade him to sell it, switch his funds to a new issue, almost invariably worthless...