Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the great blackout in the north eastern U.S. (TIME cover, Nov. 19), El Paso Electric Co. President Ray Lockhart, whose outfit serves a 13,200-sq.-mi. area of southwest Texas, southern New Mexico and the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, bragged that nothing like that could ever happen to his customers. Last week...
...manufacturers of auxiliary power generators, the effect of last month's blackout in the Northeast has been a surge of orders. While utility executives have been explaining their failure in Federal Power Commission hearings, the equipment salesmen have been busy answering inquiries and filling orders. They are likely to become still busier as a result of last week's blackout in western Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico (see THE NATION...
Even before the blackouts, sales of stand-by generators to utilities had been rising-but gradually. Now, says Admiral Albert G. Mumma, executive vice president of Worthington Corp., a producer of auxiliary generators: "The immediate market for peak power has nearly doubled in importance." For one thing, the Federal Aviation Authority is urging airports, whose lack of standby power in the Northeast blackout shocked everyone, to put in emergency systems for landing lights and radar. Moreover, the Northeast blackout taught utilities the value of auxiliary units not only for partial power when a big generator conks...
...those of cities and airports. Manufacturers have been finding increasing nonaviation uses for jet engines (including shipboard power, heating plants and railroad trains), are eagerly exploiting the power market. The jets' value has become obvious: Holyoke, Mass., switched on its Pratt & Whitney stand-by jet when the blackout hit, two minutes later had full power. Hartford, Conn., also stayed aglow with emergency jet power. A week after the blackout, New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. began using an eight-jet system that provides 121,000 kw. for peak loads and emergency power...
...November's Faculty meeting. Wendell H. Furry, chairman of the Physics Department, suggested that the bypass be left as it is. As Furry was speaking, the great Northeastern blackout set in; lights went off in University Hall and a voice vote proved inconclusive...