Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those 30 miles of falls and rapids that the true riches of the Saguenay lay. Here, the real kingdom of the Saguenay was to arise, an enclave of modern industrialism in ancient Quebec. For in those 30 miles was a drop of 300 feet from the level of Lake St. John to tidewater, and a flow of 50,000 cubic feet a second. From that, hydroelectric engineers generate i^ million kilowatts-enough to make 1,000 tons of aluminum...
...bustle and the big talk, anyone who bought a television set last week would have to be a sport fan, a connoisseur of antique films, or a man with a lot of patience. Most stations telecast only four hours a day. With some exceptions, their programs are at the level of movies in the heyday of the Keystone Cops, or of radio in the era when fans stayed up all night to hear Pittsburgh...
...closing time, stocks had jumped up one to ten points. The industrial average was up 3.78 points to 188.60. Rails closed at their best level (62.24) since Aug. 20, 1946. Total turnover for the day: 3,840,000 shares, the Big Board's biggest volume since May 1940,when prices crashed as the Germans broke through France...
...Jayvees back into the scheme," Bingham added, "I shall. The question is simply a financial one. We are still suffering from the suspension of athletics during the war; the football schedule still is not back to a pre-war level...
...Iolanthe" as performed by the present D'Oyly Carte troupe represents. It is a pleasure to say, one of the most perfectly lyrical and most permanent achievements of the great collaborators. The opera maintains the high level of its music wonderfully well even between its most famous songs, and there are a number of brief but lovely musical numbers that leave you wishing there were more--the case with "Good Morrow, Good Mother," for example. The subject, too, is Gilbertian best. The combination of blunt, but sophisticated satire of the House of Peers with a typical G & S tale...