Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past academic year about 500,000,000 pounds of steam were used. Although the sounds like a very large amount, the heating costs nowhere near what it used to. In 1929-30 when the average temperature was 42.7 degrees, the total charges for heating were $42,371.84, whereas in 1932-33, with an average temperature of 44.1 degrees, the cost was only $29,796.15. This was accomplished entirely by careful study of the efficiency of the unit and a checking up of any losses due to faulty equipment. There have been no wage cuts at any time since...
...effort to regulate heating more closely, the Department has developed its own automatic control which consists of a thermostat, a single seated pressure-regulating valve, and an outdoor mercold thermometer. When the heat is turned on in the morning, the thermometer turns off the excess flow of steam and allows only enough to enter the building to maintain a constant temperature. If the outside temperature rises, the mercold thermometer still further shuts the regulating valve. This has greatly cut down the running expenses
...crown prince of the Insull empire. Meanwhile Samuel Insull, a forbidding man in dealing with his public but well liked by his immediate associates, used to go to his mahogany-panelled office in Commonwealth Edison Co. at 7:10 every morning. Being English, he could not stand steam heat and had a log fire to keep him warm. Sometimes in a busy morning he stopped to write long letters in longhand to his favorite correspondent, his sister Emma (now dead) who lived in London. At 12:30 sharp he lunched at the Chicago Club, often with his friend Harry Stuart...
Kirkland led the second heat by half a length at the finish and was followed over the line by Leverett, Eliot, and Winthrop each about the same distance apart. There was some dispute among the judges as to the third and fourth places but the opinion in the coaching launches seemed to be that the Elephants were ahead. Kirkland went over the course...
...third heat, to be composed of Eliot, Kirkland, and Lowell second crews was defaulted by Lowell, and Eliot came in three seconds ahead of the Kirkland seconds...