Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Utility Commission engineers and a lawyer, John C. Kelley, rapped at the door of the Allentown plant. Mr. Kelley presented the superintendent, a Pennsylvania Dutchman named Fenstermacher, with a formal notice from Mr. Beamish. Superintendent Fenstermacher gave a guttural gasp. The notice read: "I assume that a theoretical breakdown of considerable magnitude has taken place. ..." With Allentown plunged into theoretical darkness, demand was made that the plant produce power immediately. There were only five men in the plant and the nearest skilled help was 200 miles away in Williamsport. Superintendent Fenstermacher sent a frantic call to his company...
...themselves on the road the better to view the scenery of the valley below. Yes, the Vagabond decided, it is better to close one's eyes; one can't see anything anyway, and the little one can see is far better left unseen, if only to avoid a nervous breakdown...
...such a bombing produced its theoretical effect, the breakdown of civilian morale, but there were signs last week to show that in Catalonia at least it might. Catalans who indulge in street fighting at a hat's drop are in general poor soldiers. For a full year they frankly shirked their full share of Leftist fighting, partly because not one foot of Catalan territory is yet invaded by Rightist troops. Now, suddenly, they find that not only has their autonomous Catalan Government been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government...
...president of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. "There are only four or five Western railroads which are not in financial difficulties today, and individual railroads cannot stand alone. Unless revenues can be obtained so the railroads can be made to pay, the answer is perfectly obvious- bankruptcy, complete breakdown of the system, Government operation...
...League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally as well as nationally are to be expected if the [war] disturbances cause a breakdown in the quarantine services and thus lead to the transmission of plague infection...