Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temperature rose close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House has a modern cooling system, the Senate's is not yet installed. With electric fans out of commission. Senators puffed, perspired, languished in linens. Leader Watson, clad in a light grey suit, wearing white silk socks and blancoed shoes, mopped his head with a handkerchief and wearily remarked: "I always try to be good natured." The Senate's behavior on Farm Relief (see p. 13) reflected small, if any, credit upon the Watson leadership. Twice had he failed...
...night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five...
...wife, two children, a car. One day last fortnight he drove them all to International Falls on the Canadian border, started back for home along the public highway after dark. Mrs. Virkula was in the front seat with him, the children asleep in the back. He stopped to light a cigaret, then drove on along the lonely wooded road...
...Queen of the Universe' seems rather a large title. Miss Goldarbeiter would probably be amazed if she could see the young ladies on some planet one million light years away from this corner of space and those far off interstellar young women, perhaps 1,000 times as big as Miss Goldarbeiter, and each with 1,000 eyes, perhaps, would be surprised...
Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...