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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switch to a 24-hour working schedule by Ford Motor Co.'s airplane factory, announcement that its force has been increased in three months from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Getting Organized | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...liquid is kept under low pressure, it will boil at temperatures much lower than 212º F. The pressure in the vacuum tank, Dr. Claude explained, is low enough to cause the 80º surface water to boil, give off steam. When he finished his explanation, he pressed a switch, started his sea-machine to work. Shortly the steam began to turn a turbine adjacent to the boiler. Rushing through the turbine into an empty tank cooled by the 40º undersea water, the steam was condensed by the lowered temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sea Power | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Valparaiso, Ind., Donald Ditsler, 12, raced down the home stretch, his mount leading the field at the Porter County fair mule race. Suddenly the mule leaped into the air, looped, fell, rolled over, expired. Cause: the mule had trod on a ground wire connected with a railway switch. Donald Ditsler, insulated from shock by the saddle, survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Farm | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...voted Dry in the House. In the Illinois primary last April she was nominated for the Senate as a Dry. Afterward she declared: "I'll run as a Dry in the election. I've always been a Dry and I don't switch on things." Because Illinois Democrats had nominated James Hamilton Lewis, a thoroughgoing Wet for the Senate and had declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, a clean-cut Wet-&-Dry contest between Nominees McCormick and Lewis was in prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: I Don't Switch | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired two spikes to the tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home, dumped it into his mother's flour can. Biscuits made from the flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boys | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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