Word: switching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more & more conservative editorial stand of the Post-Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation's dailies in favoring the election of Alf M. Landon. Solely responsible for the switch were sardonic Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard and Owner Joseph Pulitzer, a rich, respectable member of the rich, Right-thinking St. Louis Country Club...
Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
Cruft boasts that with no outside aid its eight machanics have built a ten ton water-cooled magnet, a hydraulic press exerting a force of 70,000 atmospheres, a battery of 100,000 volts, hugh switch boards, five foot vacuum tubes and a unique short-wave radio station, WIZJ. A ninety-two ton magnet for unclear physics investigation is contemplated. The shops work all summer and have over 2000 parts in stock. Some eighty research men work with the Cruft and Coolidge machinery and mechanics, among whom are two expert glass-blowers...
...some unknown reason, the pilot had apparently decided to return to the airport, banked sharply to the left at full speed when too near the ground. In the maneuver, the wingtip caught in a ditch, tripped the plane into a cartwheel. At the last instant, the pilot cut the switch, prevented fire. The retracted position of the landing gear showed that he was not attempting to land...
...front porch of the 200-year-old farmhouse, Secretary Ickes pulled a handle on an electric switch box, announced: "I now start the flow of power into the arteries of this farmstead." Actually he did nothing of the sort because the switch box was only a ceremonial dummy and power was already flowing through Rosedale Farm. Inside the farmhouse were electric clocks, an air-cooling system, a vacuum cleaner with headlights, refrigerator, dishwasher, food-mixer, curling irons. In the farm shop lathes and tools were electrically operated. Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were...