Word: switching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement with employes made in 1927, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad must place two men in the cab of every ordinary locomotive. For modern streamline engines there is no such contract. Hence, when the railroad acquired its fleet of four Diesel Zephyrs and three Diesel switch engines, it hired only one engineer for each. To substitute for the other man, it installed the "dead man's control"-a device which automatically halts the train if the engineer is forced by some emergency to take his hand from the throttle...
Compromise result: Burlington agreed to add another man to each Zephyr; the Brotherhood withdrew its demand for another man in each switch engine...
...faces will appear in the starting lineup today as Richard P. Hedblom and Anthony Staruski, a reformed end, come up from the second team to take the guard positions. Another change is to switch Ulysses J. Lupien, Jr. from the interfering back to the bucking back position, while Clavence E. Boston, Jr. will take Lupien's position as the interferer...
Last week Editor McAndrew found a subject to his taste in the cover of the Sept. 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Artist Norman Rockwell had depicted a young mother turning her unwilling son over to a hatchet-faced, spectacled schoolmarm, switch in hand. All the characters were dressed in costumes...
...Davison uttered grateful words. Presently a switch clicked in the darkened room and then was heard the sound, familiar to planetarium demonstrators, of hundreds of gasps and smothered exclamations, like the far-off murmur of surf...