Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Albany, Governor Roosevelt continued blissfully deaf, dumb & blind about his candidacy. When his friends urged him to get openly into the fight and switch to national issues, he declared publicly: "I'm too busy right here as Governor to give any thought to anything else. This job is getting bigger all the time." However he did pause long enough to assure itinerant United Pressman Raymond Clapper that business would have nothing to fear from Democratic rule at the White House...
...over the radio. Celebrating (two days ahead of time) the 45th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U. S., she waved her hand over a grid-glow tube which signalled an airplane, which dropped a flare, which operated a switch, which turned a new system of flood lights on the statue. Her broadcast farewell...
...nearly all the 1,447,000 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, toiled up last week to Corcovado Mountain, nearly half a mile above the city and its great harbor. Rain dribbled dankly. In Rome, 5,000 mi. away, Senator Guglielmo Marconi flashed three short-wave wireless signals, contacting a switch which turned on a battery of floodlights. Revealed was Jesus Christ the Redeemer, 130 ft. high, 92 ft. from fingertip to fingertip, arms outstretched. Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth statue represents ten years of planning and construction at a cost...
...first 1,000 mi. the flyers had good weather. After that, ice began to form on the wings as they climbed high over cloud banks, making the plane logy. A painful moment occurred at 3,000 mi. when the engine coughed - until the flyers remembered to switch from an empty gasoline tank to a full one. At first Herndon & Pangborn intended to fly to Salt Lake City, if possible, for a new distance record. They did fly as far as Spokane but turned back to Wenatchee "because we liked the looks of it better." With Pangborn at the controls they...
...evening. In the closing moments, when the tense lovers were being buried alive, there came a hush. An impassive moon shone down and from not far away came a gentle hooting. Industrial Cleveland could take its culture in huge doses, but still there remained the reminding murmur of nearby switch engines, the low moan of homing ore boats...