Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were wooden, that no sprinkler systems were used inside the buildings, that the high explosives had been jammed together in buildings much too close together. Nothing definite was said concerning the contention of Professor Michael Pupin of Columbia University, who stated that the lightning could have been held under control by the use of copper roofings connected by heavy copper strappings directly to the ground; or the belief of Inventor Hudson Maxim that subsurface magazines are essential to the prevention from spreading of explosions...
Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, found himself stripped of radio-broadcasting control by a ruling of Attorney General Sargent and by the failure of the 69th Congress to agree on either the Dill or White radio bills. He predicted "chaos in the air," and was not surprised last week to discover that six New York broadcasting stations were jumping to new wave lengths. If the broadcasters cannot come to a gentlemen's agreement, the Department of Commerce intends to prosecute on the basis of "wilful or malicious" interference with radio rules. It is said that such prosecution would...
...contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials negligent in permitting habitation near the arsenal? Will new storage plants be situated at Dover? Will serious attempt be made to safeguard them...
...Edison General Electric Co. of Schenectady, which J. P. Morgan had casually financed to manufacture power machinery. The new General Electric Co. which absorbed them (and, soon after, several other competitive and related firms) covered their entire field. Mr. Coffin, perspicacious of the industry's future, obtained control; made himself president. He was able to do this because he was in many respects as adroit a financier as Mr. Morgan and because Mr. Morgan never had a flair for young industries. Besides, in 1892, Mr. Morgan was busy with railroads...
...that last year the U. S. used 200,000 short tons of potash, that only about 22,000 tons were produced in this country, that the balance (costing close to $8,000,000) had been imported from European potash beds which extend from Stassfurt in Prussian Saxony (under German control) through and into Alsace (now under French control). He told that in August, 1924, these Germans and French had agreed to split the U. S. trade, 65% to Germany, 35% to France (England knew of this arrangement, did not interfere, only warned that she did not want British potash needs...