Word: switching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam to send troops into San Francisco, he replied that it would ruin him politically. One by one the potent Young backers agreed to switch their strength in the primary to Merriam. Not until he had corralled most of the Young following did Acting Governor Merriam order his militia...
...three cars attached for Bustleton. This suburb, 17 miles from Philadelphia, is on a short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the special had passed "on time." Then it vanished...
...that little she did. Finance Minister H. H. Rung sent a protest against the U. S. silver policy to the state department in Washington. Timed to accompany the protest went several unofficial threats. Unless the U. S. stopped deflating China's currency, she might be forced to switch from silver to gold. She could do this because the Central Bank of China has shipped no gold since August, has built up heavy reserve stocks, could increase these stocks by declaring an embargo on silver and selling silver through the Government to buy gold. Bankers familiar with the East were...
...Macon, Ga., 50 men and women sat down with determination on a railroad track so that a switch engine could not take carloads of cotton goods from the Payne Mill of Bibb Manufacturing Co. At Manchester, N. H., the Amoskeag Mills, largest single cotton textile factory in the U. S., shut down its chemical plant, then closed completely. In Manhattan, the "Explosion Conference" of underwriters announced that insurance rates on textile mills and mill villages, due to "riot or civil commotion," should be forthwith tripled. At Gastonia, N. C., heart of the Southern textile belt, the Loray Mill of Manville...
...glass sphere with tubular extensions on opposite sides, the Ignitron is an ordinary mercury vapor lamp except that the electrodes are the pool of mercury in the bottom of the sphere and a graphite pole above it. When struck by the bullet, the copper wire closes a switch which passes electric current to the mercury. A spark then leaps between pool and pole. The flash lasts...