Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was expected to win in Congress although he claimed that Daylight Saving Time would save only 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of power for defense. This amount of power totals exactly five-tenths of 1% of U.S. power production, is only about enough to run the 2,500,000 new electric refrigerators sold to citizens in the first six months...
...Knoxville a golden-blonde hung lanterns in the display window of Walgreen's drugstore, candles glowed on cafeteria tables (see cut), the City Utilities Building displayed a miniature hangar in which a new airplane appeared every time 50,000 kilowatt-hours were saved...
...first major industry to obey President Roosevelt's "unlimited emergency" decree; most of them worked right through Memorial Day, thus held production close to capacity. Best news, however, came from utility offices. Despite a scarcity scare in the Southeast, power output last week was 3,011,754,000 kilowatt-hours, 16.3% above a year ago. Like business as a whole, the gains were not uniform. Output of New York's Consolidated Edison was only 0.4% above 1940, while North American Co. (St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington...
...rapidly expanding defense industry (aluminum, ferroalloys, etc.) depends on electricity. But the year's rainfall in the Southeast was 50% below normal. The water level in some of TVA's reservoirs was down 60%. Olds made a quick estimate: the drought meant a 1,000,000-kilowatt power shortage in the Southeast before year...
Unlike his namesake in the steel industry (see p. 69), Powerman Olds has been predicting a shortage all along. Last December FPC forecast that the U.S. defense program would run into a 1,500,000-kilowatt power shortage in 1942. Even after substantial capacity expansions had been planned, its March estimate was an 800,000-kilowatt shortage next year. Now even more power-consuming aluminum plants are planned for defense (see p. 20). Droughts or no droughts, it looked last week as if the next big defense bottleneck might be power...