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Large have been the earnings of the hugest U. S. corporations during the first three months of 1928, and unusual the deficits of others. By and large, the season was profitable for great numbers. Only 7,055 firms failed...
...Xavier in the West, faced eleven men from Lee; refused to be argued with or interfered with or tackled; rolled up the hugest score of the season...
...sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia (see p. 24). Thereafter the searchlight, hugest in the world, would be at the service of Virginia physicists and of night flyers between Boston and New Orleans. Differing from bright predecessors only in size, the monster Monticello searchlight is the latest creation of Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor of gyroscopes, gyro-compasses, stabilizers, searchlights (TIME, March...
...President Wilson, built powder plants in West Virginia and ran them up to production of three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...
...creating the halo of glowing purple known to electrical engineers as the "corona," a sign of wasting power. The crackle of sparks intensified, culminating in a fierce explosion, as a broad, jagged ribbon of blue-edged white flame leapt across the room from electrode to electrode. It was the hugest man-made spark in history and signified success in the testing of six new transformers, stepped up to 2,100,000 volts, with which Leland Stanford experts will study the loss of power in high voltage transmission; the nature of lightning; safety in cutting off monster currents...