Word: drain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holds all the stock, will take no salary, no dividends. Net income, if any, will be turned back into lower prices. "We are able to do this," said Mr. Levin, "because, fortunately, we have no stockholders, bondholders or bankers in this business. . . . There isn't a soul to drain off dividends. . . . We believe our plan will help speed recovery. More goods will pass over counters, more mills will be busy and more jobs will be the result. . . ." NRAdministrator Johnson had approved the plan, said Mr. Levin, and so had Alfred E. Smith and New York's Mayor LaGuardia...
...mass. It came loose, a strange-looking something the size of a plum. Surgeon Sweet paused several seconds while the Negro artist sketched the "tumor" and cavity, then tossed the "growth" into a catch basin, reamed the cavity in Warden Lawes's leg, put in a drain and some stitches, and was done...
...back over 25% of the $5,000,000.000 it has lent in two years. A quarter-billion dollars has been repaid since Jan.1 and Jesse Jones intimated last week that repayments would take care of the additional amounts to be lent until next July. Consequently RFC's net drain on the Treasury is likely to fall one to one and a half billion below the President's estimate. Big repayers to RFC have been banks, who have turned back 57% of the $1,533,000,000 lent to them...
...power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current in use and charts the daily peak loads, is a Hopkins wattmeter on which the recording chart is driven 96 times faster than standard. A few inches of this fast chart are required to record the drain on the power house for only 30 seconds. If the 30 seconds are taken when the station load is fairly steady, the recording line is practically straight. In the broadcasting station is a Hopkins "wattmeter receiver" with a fast chart to which is electrically transmitted the power station chart-record...
...draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into the combustion tank when the driver arrived...