Word: floodlighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody, including the President, quite understood what the country was letting itself in for. Shortly before he signed the bill, President Roosevelt wrote to Judge Landis urging baseball as usual and suggesting more night games. To floodlight Ebbets Field (home of the Brooklyn Dodgers) for a single night game requires 18,560 kilowatt-hours of electric power...
...jobs are parceled out among 60 manufacturing plants in 35 cities. But in a hall at the company proving ground at Milford, G.M.'s visitors saw samples of G.M.'s vast work-in-progress: airplane instruments, Army trucks ranging from earth-borers (for planting land mines) to floodlight units, guns, airplane, automobile and ship engines, propellers. Prime exhibit was an Allison airplane engine. G.M. has contracts for $242,000,000 worth of them, is turning them out in Indianapolis at a rate of close to 700 a month. Other G.M. jobs...