Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Ladder. Rule No. 8 is the last one: Don't go around without a ladder. That is, always have handy a means of climbing down from the eminence you achieve, that you may live to try again four years later. Most notable recent breaker of this rule is Lowden of Illinois who committed political suicide after losing the 1928 Republican nomination by rushing angrily off without due warning to his friends...
...President Maloney's moves was to inspect the PRC properties. He did not find things just the way he would like them. Steam was the chief power used by PRC. It was produced in hand-fired boilers, carried in long, wasteful pipes. There were 32 old, uneconomical coal breaker-plants. A large amount of haulage was done by mules...
Weather. Despite scattered showers August failed to produce sufficient rainfall to break the drought as it did in 1901. Weather Bureau statistics indicated that the 1930 drought in duration and area was worse than the record-breaker of 29 years...
Four new meet records were set Saturday. The only record-breaker in the Class A section was Frank Pierce, of Andover, who leaped 12 feet 5 15-16 inches in the pole vault. In Class B. Tony Geniawicz, Lynn English football star, hurled the 12-pound shot 50 feet 11 3-8 inches, over a foot more than the old meet record of 49 feet 9 1-2 inches set by Wilbur Marshall of Medford High in 1927. In the high jump, Jack Sandler of Lowell High bettered by one-sixteenth inch the old record set by Reb Russell...
Ever since electrical engineers found it economical to transmit high voltages of electricity from powerful central stations, they have had trouble handling the goods to be delivered. Simply to turn on and oft a monster current requires monster circuit breakers (switches). For currents of 220,000 volts, switches have had to be as large as water tanks' on apartment house roofs. It was necessary to immerse the breaker points in an oil bath of high insulating properties to smother the flashing arc when the circuit was broken. Frequently it was necessary to change the oil which was carbonized (made...