Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was 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...
Working like a telautograph, the Audimeter is designed to record with a stylus on moving tape every twist of the radio switch and dials. It registers programs received, whether a program was tuned de liberately or found by dial twisting, whether it was heard through the full period, tuned out at any point, or kept on only after unsuccessful search for something better. Eliminating memory and other human fallibilities from listener-interest testing, Audimeters should tell advertisers just what audience he has and precisely what in his program, if anything, drives an audience away. Independent of telephones, the survey should...
...line gang boss on a railroad electrification job, tells the story in his own words-a wisecracking lineman's lingo in which an angry character "arcs," gets "hotter than a wet switch''; a nosey one gets "ideas his head ain't insulated for." Like the piano playing of the villain, the plot is as "complicated as a six-track interlocking," contains as many trick effects as an electrical exposition. But when Author Haines writes straight description of wiring a low tunnel, his story delivers useful power...
Though the dealers thus took Franklin Roosevelt's word for it in one case, they repudiated him in another. He was largely responsible for getting the industry to switch its annual show from January to November four years ago; last week the N. A. D. A. recommended returning to the former arrangement on the ground that the present basis has accentuated the glut in used cars by counteracting the normal upsurge in spring sales...
...Young fears that Guaranty plans to vote this stock for a switch in C. & O. officers, electing friends of Guaranty rather than of Mr. Young. Though Guaranty denies such intent, Mr. Young fortnight ago got a New York court to rule that there be no Chesapeake Corp. meeting until the court has passed on Guaranty's right to vote the stock (TIME, April 25). In the interim Robert Young has gone down the backstairs by getting the public holders of C. & O. common stock to rally to the defense of its present officers. Last week...