Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire thrice as fast per minute. The risk of its sinking has been materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn; to be President of the Yonkers Electric Light & Power Co. Mr. Sloan now heads five light & power companies in Greater New York, which form the second largest public utilities unit in the U. S., exceeded only by American...
...know how this report came into the public light. The capital stock of the new Opel company will amount to 60,000,000 marks and these will remain in the possession of my family...
This, no doubt, surprised Liberty readers, many of whom regard the magazine as light entertainment (in fiction and article). But Liberty has flayed Prohibition, on occasion, on its editorial page; has published articles revealing the iniquities of bootleggers and Prohibition agents...
...gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink and are startled as they step into the white lobby light where the inevitable cameras click...