Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taiwan Electric Power now furnishes 95%, of the island's electricity, operates eight hydro-electric and six steam power plants. Its gross operating revenues last year came to $4,242,000 against 1929'$ $4,005,000-about the same as for a U. S. city of 200,000 population, although Formosa's population is 4,000,000. Its property is valued at $29,000,000. One of the biggest shareholders in the company is the Imperial Japanese Government, which owns 36.7% of the stock and is aggressively developing the island's industries. Hence when last week...
Other inventions included: a four-sided safety razor; non-slipping suspender buckles; a combination of submarine, hydro-airplane and armored tank...
...managing agency of the three companies supplying Poona, Broach and Karachi with power & light. Last week the majority of United Eastern Agencies' stock went to American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. The minority holders are largely the same prominent Indians who share with American & Foreign Power control of Tata Hydro-Electric Agencies, Ltd., managing agent for several big power companies in the Bombay district...
Universal Oil Products. Only a financier as daring as Mr. Armour would have possessed 400 share's of that stock at the outset. He it was who, during a trip west in 1914, gathered together a few associates and formed the company (originally as National Hydro-Carbon Co.) to take over certain oil refining patents of Pennsylvania Inventor Jesse A. Dubbs. In 1916 Promoter Hiram J. Halle was made president. Halle's entire staff consisted of Jesse Dubbs, two assistants, and the two Dubbs sons, Carbon and C. A. No attempts were made to operate with the patents...
...Carbon. Technical name for the condensed oil is "hydro-carbonated vapors." Therefore Inventor Dubbs had named one of his sons "Carbon." When Son C. A. and Son Carbon worked together in Universal Oil Products, fellow-workers were confused, so Son Carbon took a middle initial, "P." They expanded it to "Petroleum." After his father's death, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs worked hard to perfect the invention. He increased the company's patent holdings to more than 1,000, issued and pending. Last week he, 49, once poor, grey now and serious-eyed, received $3,582,045 for his share...