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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...changed by electrical contact caused by a car approaching the intersection. Coordinated lights are controlled in relation to other lights and may be simultaneous or progressive. Simultaneous lights are used in New York, but are technically unsound because they result in a high moving speed and a slow overall rate. The progressive lights as they are used on Washington Street in Boston are theoretically ideal and permit a quick and continuous flow of traffic...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a modest, intelligent conscientious legislator, somewhat above the Old Guard average, who works hard at his duties without making much public impression. He has the appearance of a leader but no leadership has he yet shown...
...rate of 50 a day pink-cheeked U. S. youths and several blue-jawed men who said they were ex-U. S. Marines were turned away by the Brazilian Consulate General. But another species of U. S. help was welcome. Quiet dickering for bombing planes began. During the week it was frequently reported that President Hoover had no intention of laying an embargo on exports of such weapons to Brazil...
When the visitors saw the turbine gathering speed, traveling at a rate of several thousand revolutions per min. they stopped their whispers, stared. Then Georges Claude turned on electric generators. Forty large bulbs began to glow dully, soon lighted up, shone brightly for min. Cuban scientists nodded their heads. Here was a Power which might some day give to Cuba and all tropical and semitropical countries an industrial value they never dreamed...
...offered an accident policy which would pay amounts varying from $10,000 for death in railroad or steamship wreck to $500 for being fatally hit by a truck or by lightning. Normally this policy would cost about $5 per year, depending upon precise details. To get the Digest rate it was also necessary to subscribe to the magazine for one year...