Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Engineer Sprague tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines, a fuse blew out. scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars...
...father of the trolley car." Celebration: a tribute meeting at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities had trolley lines, 110 of them...
...listen quietly as he tells them hat the "antediluvian conditions" of Noah's time are repeated today. Jesus Christ is coming. But "men today are deifying man and humanizing God. Modernism is the religion of Cain." among the members of the Fundamentals Association are Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME. April 25), Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, famed Seattle pastor, Board Chairman Henry Parsons Crowell of Quaker Oats Co. They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said...
Like frogs in praise of Spring, British Literati Gould, Walpole, Bullett, Strong, Priestley, Straus periodically raise such a chorus in praise of some new Britisher's new book that U. S. publishers prick up their ears, try to reproduce the music on their side of the waves. Recent resulting importations are James Hanley's Men In Darkness and Boy, now supplemented by a first novel by Derbyshire Coalminer Boden. Though less savage than Hanley's books, Author Boden's novel treats the same general theme-the brutalizing misery of those on or below the economic ladder...
...public lands afford a memorable example of this. The Interstate Commerce Commission was also unsuccessful in its attempts at regulation until Roosevelt gave it the power to enforce its regulations. The moral fibre of the American people seems hardly strong enough to prevent mulcting the public a la Jay Gould without drastic regulation. But the later effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Commission points the way to a practical control of American economy. The basic industries of the nation do business on a nation-wide scale, and are subject to control by the federal government. Thus it has the power...