Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieut. Edwin J. Brown of the Coast & Geodetic Survey grasped the switch of an electrical device under his freight-car shelter. From the device ran 7 mi. of wire, which dipped into a mile-long line of steel cases buried in the limestone quarries. There were 5,000 steel cartridges. They contained altogether 220 tons of dynamite. Lieut. Brown at 3:02 p. m. was to set off the mightiest single controlled blast that man has ever dealt with...
...stage when Doug's pal finds a check and draws out an innocent-looking violin case which is full of counterfeit money. With both Dr. Bernard and the counterfeiters on his trail Doug displays his acrobatic inheritance to good advantage in a thrilling dash through and above a switch yard of moving trains. Complications ensue when Joan is arrested for passing some of the bogus cash and the alcoholic pal walks off with the evidence; but the tangle unwinds somehow and everyone is happy...
...working, the beam of light passing from the spark through the two cells and mirrors is at a minimum. Then, as the observer watches that minimum, he throws a current of electricity into the magnets. Their opposite fields wrench the light beam. The twisting follows the throwing of the switch by a time interval which must be measured in billionths of a second. Because that infinitesimal measurement is possible and because the time lag is different for every element and every form of every element, it is a delicate analyzer of unknown substances. It can discern one trillionth...
Long-nosed Viceroy Lord Willingdon took time off from his troubles with Indian Nationalists last week to go to Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation project in the world. With British talent for resonant names it is known as the Lloyd Barrage...
Nine miles outside of Moscow a local train, packed with commuters, halted at a switch-head before taking a spur track. Without warning another local swept round the bend and smashed full into the standing train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods...