Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them to hand over to the liquidating trustees in Boston a check for $500,000 as 10% payment on an agreed price of $5,000,000. In addition to its first $100,000, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire promised to pay Amoskeag Industries $2,250,000 for the hydro-electric power plant which had driven Amoskeag looms and spindles. Cautiously said Amoskeag Industries' President Moreau: "Maybe by winter some industry will be located in the plant...
...which has been demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," Donald Wills Douglas was an Annapolis midshipman who spent much of his time throwing model airplanes out his dormitory window. In 1912, when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville...
...agenda in the form of papers and in discussions includes: power resources of the different countries, such as hydro-electric, coal and oil; waterpower production; fuel preparation; internal combustion engines; power transmission and distribution; electro-chemistry; transportation, and electrification of railways; standardization and research; domestic, farm and agricultural uses; illumination; education and health; and economics of power production...
...International wrote off virtually its entire investment in utilities and dropped the International Hydro-Electric system from its consolidated balance sheet. Just before the Public Utility Act took effect last December, President Graustein legally washed his hands of New England Power Association, delivering voting control to three trustees. International retained its property rights in the trusteed New England shares and holds title to its Canadian power system. Having taken its losses on these investments, it still has the undiminished possibilities of making money on them eventually...
...effects. At one time the company and its subsidiaries had outstanding no less than 35 different bond issues and 25 stock issues, the parent itself boasting two preferreds and three commons designated A, B and C. All the power properties were grouped in a sub-holding company called International Hydro-Electric. On a consolidated basis they represented two-thirds of International's total gross assets...