Word: breaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until last week, when Paul Kollsman sold out to Square D Co. (maker of electric switches and control equipment, particularly an automatic circuit breaker cheap enough to be used in houses in place of fuse boxes...
Annually on John Mitchell Day the miners of Pennsylvania do homage to his memory at his marble statue in Scranton. Last week on John Mitchell Day, every miner in the State took the day off, as usual. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James, who boasts that he used to be a miner himself, celebrated the day with an incredible political blunder. He let subordinates fire John Mitchell's 46-year-old son, Richard, a $2,100-a-year clerk in the Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard...
Carefully timing his remarks so that none of his important disclosures would be made before Europe's stock exchanges were closed for the day, Sir John announced a budget 40% higher than last year's record-breaker, said that the 45,000,000 citizens of the United Kingdom would spend $6,610,000,000 on their Government between April 1, 1939 and April 1, 1940.* Moreover, he warned, the Government might very well find it necessary to up expenditures from time to time as the situation warranted...
...running events. Although there will be no outstanding quarter milers if Joe Donnelly is saved for the relay, Sophomores Dan Hamilton and Tim Willcox have been coming fast. In the 880 are veterans A1 Hanlon, Joe Bradley, and last year's Yardling captain Rolla Campbell. A potential record-breaker, Campbell last year covered the half in 1.57.4, but is still weak as the result of a long illness last winter...
...William Hall of No. 58 North 16th Street, Harrisburg, Pa. last week rented his old horse-drawn victoria for its quadrennial job: to carry Pennsylvania's Governor to his inaugural. In the rented relic outgoing Governor George Howard Earle and incoming Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James rode to the State Capitol, where Republicans formally retrieved control of the State from the Democrats who held it for four years...