Word: dam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transmitting milk ability that it is far beyond mathematical analysis. But Mr. Prentice and his staff were convinced that by assiduous testing under the general laws of genetics they could find what they wanted. They found first, as others had found, that a cow inherits productive capacity from both dam and sire. They found further that, as regards quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance was obvious from her output...
...State Power Authority. That body called it "an outstanding case of successful private operation of a public utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained the support of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...
...Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with Tom Caldwell at the controls and B. J. Dexter biting his knuckles in its luxurious caboose, to race from Chicago to Boulder City at 100 m. p. h., carrying an "iron lung", to save Allan Dexter's life. Before it reaches...
Cinemaddicts will find it good melodrama as well as spectacular advertising, an up-to-date revival of a time-honored cinema formula, in which implements like Diesel engines, iron lungs and Boulder Dam are more exciting than the people...
...Citing the enumerated powers of Congress he declared: "If the program of the Tennessee Valley Authority involves only the salvaging of excess or unused electric power, produced in aid of its operations in improving the navigation of the Tennessee River, or in relation to its operations at the Wilson Dam, or the Nitrate plants, there located for the National defense, or for the benefit of lands owned by it in the government reservations, at or in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, its right to dispose of such excess electric power cannot be questioned...