Word: kilowatter
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...mercury turbine was first conceived about 1912 by the late William LeRoy Emmett. He tinkered with small-scale machines in G.E. laboratories until 1922, when the progressive Hartford (Conn.) Electric Light Co. volunteered to install a 1,800-kilowatt mercury plant for commercial power production. It was not a thumping success, nor were two 20,000-kw. plants built for the New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. at Kearny and for G.E. at Schenectady...
...rough idea: an extra hour of daylight for the nation should cut down the national consumption of electricity between dark and bedtime (the peak demand for electric power), divert 736 million kilowatt-hours annually to war-production plants. Even so, a power shortage for 1942 is predicted...
...President, quite understood what the country was letting itself in for. Shortly before he signed the bill, President Roosevelt wrote to Judge Landis urging baseball as usual and suggesting more night games. To floodlight Ebbets Field (home of the Brooklyn Dodgers) for a single night game requires 18,560 kilowatt-hours of electric power...
...morning, by getting them up before dawn. Clarence Lea explained: home consumption, morning or night, is of secondary importance; the peak consumption of power is caused by factories and offices between 5 and 7 p.m. By cutting down on this load, the Administration hopes to save 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year-enough juice to produce over 70,000,000 Ib. of much-needed aluminum for planes...
...custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats. The General was later informed that he had wasted 65,000 kilowatt hours. He was much surprised...