Word: h
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sent separately was a name most likely to be frowned on by the Senate-Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West (see The Cabinet, "West Case"). The list, fairly certain to be approved in toto, included Utah's J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State; Tennessee's H. Theodore Tate, Treasurer of the U. S.; Ohio's John W. Pole to be Comptroller of Currency; William S. Culbertson of Kansas, Ambassador to Chile; also five Ministers, a Farm Loan Board man, a dozen postmasters...
...Navy, the Hon. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the K. K. K.; for Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Ella A. Boole, National President of the W. C. T. U.; for Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon. Dr. J. Roach Straton; for Secretary of Commerce, the Hon. Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, General Secretary of the World League against Alcoholism; for Secretary of War, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin...
...interests, they would yield only 40,000 horsepower. Tallulah Falls on the Tallulah River in Georgia yield 108,000. Few natural waterfalls in the U. S. have been developed for waterpower. Usually dams are found more convenient and efficient. Outstanding natural waterfalls now exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin (35,000 h. p.); Snoqualmie Falls, Wash. (20,000 h. p.). Some famed undeveloped...
...consumption of potatoes has decreased 25% in the last two years. There was a crop surplus of 80,000,000 bushels in 1927. There will probably be a bigger surplus this year. These figures caused Gov. H. Clarence Baldridge of Idaho to flay "that foolish women's fad for slim figures'' before a convention of potato-growers in Chicago last week. Gov. Baldridge, as everyone knows, has both potato-growers and women among his constituents...
...Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive to Italians, Swiss and Frenchmen these record facilities seemed ridiculous in comparison with the fact that in Great Britain the famed "Flying Scotsman" chuffs from London to Edinburg daily at an average speed of 65 m. p. h...