Word: wire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Pressure groups on both sides were working hard, stirring up constituents to wire or telephone their Congressmen. When the voting came, the Republican leadership stuck solidly by their Dixiecrat allies. But 64 rank & file Republicans deserted their leaders to join a solid front of Northern Democrats in smashing the great Cox rebellion by a decisive vote...
...darkened building in Boston's old North End, five men worked behind a wire screen, piling up plump sacks of U.S. currency with the mechanical indifference of butchers stacking daisy hams into a cooler. It was 7 o'clock-time for the Boston office of Brink's, Inc. to tot up the day's armored-truck collections and lock them in the vault for the night...
...eight years that had then passed since expropriation, Mexico's aging equipment ingeniously held together with baling wire had barely managed to keep established wells producing; hardiy anything had been done in the way of new exploration and drilling. With cabinet rank to help him make needed changes and deal firmly with the high-riding, left-wing oil union, Bermúdez brought in 51 producing wells in 1947 and 83 more the following year. In 1949, Pemex added 180 new wells to bring national production to an estimated 60 million barrels for the year...
...When they first look at the machines. Except for Bessie, who has thousands of moving parts that spin and clack entertainingly, they are mostly electronic, and look like the insides of big, enormously complicated radio sets. Among their thousands of vacuum tubes runs a tangled web of fine, insulated wire. On their panels lights flash mysteriously: red lights and white lights dancing like motes in the sunlight as the numbers flow. Harvard's newest machine, Mark III, is probably the handsomest. It was built for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, and it looks as spruce and shipshape...
...Department of Justice has asked Congress to amend the Communications Act in order to permit tapping of telephones in kidnapping and security cases, under authorization of the Attorney General. Congress has not granted the request. Unless and until it does, wire-tapping cannot legally be used as an aid to law enforcement. We consider it imperative at this time for Congress to inquire searchingly into the extent to which the law has been violated and the courts of the United States hoodwinked by a Federal agency. And we think the law should be made so clear that even Attorneys General...