Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark night, near Ambrose Light Ship and Coast Guard boat No. 145 sighted with her searchlight a small boat which appeared to be a U. S. vessel running without lights. The name upon her stern was covered by a canvas. Toot, toot, toot, went the Coast Guard craft, signalling for the vessel to stop. No answer. Pop, pop, pop went three blank shots from the patrol boat. Still no answer. Bang, bang went two 4-lb. shells. The vessel still refused to stop or give her name but the searchlight picked up the lettering Shawnee. upon the bow, a name...
...Light fiction, especially detective stories," has been the chief convalescent literary diet prescribed for George V, but last week His Majesty was allowed to delve into a fairly hefty tome, his new biography by discreet old Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, 69, onetime private secretary to Lord Kitchener, whom he also biographed...
Utilities, not chemicals, however, were Lord Birkenhead's major errand. Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., is a holding company for British light and power companies serving 95 cities in England and Scotland. Areas exclusively controlled comprise 9,300 square miles, including large manufacturing centres in the neighborhood of London, and with a population of more than 2,000,000. As electric service is increasing at double the rate in corresponding U. S. cities and towns, prosperous is Greater London & Counties Trust...
...despite its potency, Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., is not an independent company, is controlled by Harley Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Utilities Power & Light controls eight U. S. companies which supply electricity, also gas, to St. Louis, Indianapolis and 830 other U. S. cities and towns with a total population of more than 2,800,000. Counting its British subsidiary, Utilities Power & Light last year* showed a net of $5,999,168. Gross British revenues equalled about one-fourth of gross U. S. and British revenues combined...
...United Light & Power Co. (500,000 preferred...