Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flywheel of the principal Papal dynamo (there are four) has been painted white...
...youngest scientists, 29-year-old Dr. Bruno Lange. His first sun disc, developed several years ago, was copper covered with copper oxide. Lately he has used other metals and oxides, has found some which will develop from sunshine enough current to light an electric bulb, drive a small dynamo. Dr. Lange will not, of course, tell what metals he used...
...Federal Power Commission, that small but potent dynamo of political disturbances, generated fresh currents of news last week when President Hoover appointed its five new members. Until Congress at its last session reorganized it on a full-time basis, this Commission was composed of the Secretaries of War, Interior, Agriculture. Selected as chairman was big, wavy-haired George Otis Smith, since 1907 director of the Interior Department's Geological Survey. Maine-born and Colby-graduated, Dr. Smith learned about water power from charting and gauging streams, selecting power sites, serving as technical adviser to the old Commission. His other...
...bought St. Regis Paper Co., and was made its president. Four years later he again was head of a syndicate, this time to buy Northern New York Utilities, Inc., of which he was made chairman. For the past ten years he has gained fame as a dynamo in the electrical field, has also remained the head of St. Regis Paper which now is Niagara Hudson's largest stockholder with 16.6% of the 25,595.000 shares outstanding...
...electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They are not, and he kills an assistant warder...