Word: lamp
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...
...Lamp Posts, Booze, Chisels. Like Prophet Mohammed's original Koran, Tycoon Ford's Moving Forward is best read in stimulating snatches. Its inconsistencies, some irreconcilable, are not the point. Snatches...
...lamp posts have been provided for weak or overstimulated business to cling to and so they are apt to cling to one another. The embrace is called a merger...
...Inventor Machlett's improvement is a success, it may be possible to use neon lamps in homes and offices to replace incandescent bulbs. The brightness of the incandescent filament is usually too intense, requires lamp shades. Neon light is diffused, needs no shading. It more nearly approaches daylight, gives off healthful ultra violet rays...
Author Burnett, who usually writes on such timely topics as gangsters or prizefighters, this time has gone back to the days of the Western two-gun men. Partly historical, his graphic narrative smells more of gunpowder than of the lamp. Says he: "This story ... is based on the events leading up to and arising out of the Earp-Clanton feud. This famous old feud is still hotly discussed in the southeastern corner of Arizona...