Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, too, has a wired wireless system under way, and adaptation of all People's Radios for wire transmission has already been made obligatory...
...conspiring to influence a witness in his Chicago Grand Jury hearings. The Grand Jury recommended that the States revoke the charters of Moe's racing news wire service...
...peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much as seen with a gun, invested 13 miles of British border. Across the way on British soil, men of the Middlesex Regiment and Rajputana Rifles lined the barbed-wire frontier, alert for Britain's territorial integrity...
This week, with greater impartiality than most diplomatic arbitrators show, the River Hai (pronounced High) flooded Tientsin-Japanese and British Concessions alike. Barbed wire on wooden trestles and wooden sheds for searching and stripping were washed away. The barbed wire blockade was off; a water blockade-of the whole city-was on. ^ In Shanghai, Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting...
...second panel, entitled The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, is a scene of Territorial industry. In front of a sod house a woman and child pare potatoes; near by, on a wagon, the farmer with a sledge hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted...