Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long train chugs into a little station on the outskirts of the Big City. It comes to a stop, comes to life. Men pop out of its doors. In a moment there is amazing activity. Torches held in brawny hands provide light. Neighing horses are driven in dozens down shadowy ramps. Behind them come lumbering elephants, single file. Men lift down great, gaudy cages. A flickering light reveals the prisoners-lions, bears, monkeys, the population of the Ark itself. And men and women-tiny men and tiny women, tall men and tall women, thin men and fat women, tattooed...
General Electric Co. (power, light, toasters, curling irons) net, $54,153,806. Previous year...
...Federal Light & Traction Co. (light, heat and 12,000,000 bus passengers annually) net, $3,243,921. Previous year...
Kansas City Power & Light Co. (holds franchise to steam heat Kansas City till 1935) net, $3,690,168. Previous year...
...biographer and niece, Martha Bianchi, avoided explicitness, displayed an understandable reticence in throwing too much light on the mystery. Her editor and sister, Lavinia, reluctantly surrendered The Complete Poems, in 1922. But their completeness is gainsaid by the present, "little unexplored package" of 150 poems, some of them pondering the emptiness left by love, more of them blithely magnifying the details that filled her life...