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...kilowatts) the amount of electricity required by Tacoma (50,000 kilo-watts), that transfusion of this power from the ship to the city's distributing stations was altogether practicable. But if the ship were sent, might not a precedent be set?civilians being the importunate souls they are???that would keep the Lexington dashing up and down the Pacific Coast, and her sister the Saratoga up and down the Atlantic, turning on "emergency" power every time a river ran low? Washington's Senator Wesley Livsey Jones persuaded Secretary Adams that Tacoma's situation was really growing grave. Secretary Adams said...
...regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief European port through which "white slaves" pass is Marseille, France; but Lisbon, Portugal, and Piraeus, Greece, are auxiliary ports of shipment in which conditions are???if possible? more debased than at Marseille; 5) The Anglo-Saxon countries scarcely figure in the international traffic but recruit their "white slaves" locally...