Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking his own time and way of annoying Britain, de Valera last week let to non-Britons the biggest batch of Free State contracts since the great River Shannon hydro-electric project eight years ago. Part of his long-range program to make Ireland self-sufficient, they called for ?600,000 worth of machinery for beet-sugar factories at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. German and Czechoslovak companies got the contracts in exchange for promises to buy more Irish farm products. When the three new plants are operating next autumn, the Free State need import no more sugar. Next problems: grain...
More than a week passed before a lineman discovered the last missing team between Sudbury and Abitibi Canyon in Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes...
Empire, Not until it turned into the 20th Century did the U. S. magazine business start swelling to mammoth proportions. At the root of that amazing growth was Cyrus Curtis who developed advertising as a sort of huge hydro-electric system to drive the wheels of the publishing business. What Henry Ford did for automobiles, Cyrus Curtis did for magazines- and they both waxed very, very rich. Today the House of Curtis towers so high above all others that there is no room for comparison...
...owners to ease their mortgage troubles. ¶ Adopted (209-10-150) a resolution in- structing the Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment charges by Virginia's Smith against Federal Judge Lowell of Massachusetts (see p. 14). ¶ Adopted a resolution whereby the New York State Power Authority would get hydro-electric rights along the international rapids as a result of the St. Lawrence Seaway development; sent it to the Senate. For these rights the State Authority would contribute about $89,000,000 toward the $272,000,000 total U. S. cost of the project with Canada...
Work will continue for three or four months beginning June 20. Grenfell urgently expresses the need for all volunteers who can pay their transpiration and expenses. In the past years about 150 Harvard men have responded, and this year plans are being completed for installing a hydro-electric plant, utilizing a reservoir built by volunteers...