Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good fellows, these guests from Paris, the Britons thought. Short, witty, cigar-chewing French Premier Andre Tardieu had never turned up in more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times...
Another great year in the Insull epic was 1910. North of Chicago were ten small towns (Antioch, Grayslake, Barrington, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Dundee, Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...
...long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...alloy of nickel and steel, used, experimentally, as a source of air waves, similar to sound waves, but above audible limit, especially in the range: 30,000 to 50,000 cycles. Such waves can be focused, confined to narrow beams like those from a searchlight. Both the quartz crystal and magnetostriction rod are being worked on for communication purposes, and are also used to study the elastic properties of materials...
...crystal-controlled master oscillator of 50,000 cycles, with submultiple and harmonic frequency multiplers...