Word: amain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electricity. Production of electricity proceeds amain with new needs demanding more power and excess power stimulating new needs. Last year, according to last week's compilation by the Electrical World, 110 U. S. light and power companies each generated at least 100,000,000 kilowatt-hours. Indeed 14 created more than 1,000,000,000 k.w.h. each. The 110 all together made 56,079,006,233 k.w.h. against 48,725,178,113 k.w.h. the preceding year...
Next, when Chief Pilot Carl Ben Eielson stepped into the Alaskan's cockpit and signaled "Contact!" for a test flight, the craft bucked and plunged, struggled amain with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight...