Word: switching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prostrate; the mining industry is on part time. L'Oetivre (Radical Paris daily) put the matter bluntly with its headline: NOT ONE PFENNIG? NOT ONE CENT!! If this was to be the end of Reparations, let it be the end of debt payments also. London too was anxious to switch the entire burden to U. S. shoulders. Commented the Sunday Times...
Shrewd Aubervilliers understood. Her beloved Pierre was doffing his radical cap and putting on a moderate political coat to match those of his moneyed friends. Why not? Great Aristide Briand had made exactly the same switch; so had Alexandre Millerand, President of the Republic...
...Senate, a continuing body where no switch in party control occurred, committee posts remained unchanged...
...humidity, the tube passes through a small tank of water heated by an electric light bulb. Mr. Houston admits that the aerophor presents its difficulties. It takes a big mouth to hold the forked tube on either side of the big tuba mouthpiece, a special facial-muscle technique to switch from lung to bellows air without interrupting the tone or affecting its quality. But hitherto players on the big horn have had to have the heart and lungs of athletes. Oboists and bassoonists need outside help even more because of their tiny, double-reed mouthpieces. The legend that all woodwind...
...iron, production had been planned to approximate 60,000,000 tons in the last year of the Second F. Y. P. This was cut last week to 25,000,000 tons at Comrade Stalin's suggestion. More important, a switch was indicated from the program of expanding Soviet heavy industries ("to catch up with and surpass the U. S." as Stalin once put it) to concentrate at once on light industries. These would make shoes, clothing, farm implements, sewing machines and simple necessities like needles for which Soviet peasants clamor. From light industries would also come readily salable articles...