Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked how she would campaign next fall on Prohibition, she replied: " I will run as a Dry. I've always been a Dry and I do not switch on things...
Fortnight ago Siemens Schuckert of Berlin* announced a new switch to handle current up to 600,000 volts without spattering fire. It does not resort to the use of oil baths or air blasts. It operates in a pool of a secret liquid, allegedly far more efficient than...
...Italy had been operating "dummy"' accounts through the firm of Leib, Keyston & Co., whose senior partner. George N. Keyston, California socialite, is president of the Exchange. Other San Francisco brokers, claiming the firm could not have known these accounts were false, refused to receive customers who wanted to switch from Leib. Keyston, refused to accept the permanent resignation of President Keyston. Meanwhile, under the guidance of Bertram E. Alanson, vice president and longtime (1908) member, the Exchange finished its first three months in its new building...
...room, a travelling crane was busily in action, its massive hook swinging in long even arcs as the operator, perched in a box-like contraption 40 feet above the floor, controlled the apparatus with a small hand switch...
...improve on coincidence and make a queen of May. "Eddy" was dead, but "Georgie" was left. May should marry Georgie, decreed Victoria. But Alexandra was violently opposed. What?this girl who was supposed to be grief-stricken for Alexandra's eldest and favorite son?should she be allowed to switch her affections to No. 2? Was it decent? Was it right? In effect, should May be allowed to get away with...