Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eyeing the Senate's work from the far wing of the Capital, House leaders shook their heads. They thought it unwise to load down U. S. taxpayers any further- especially in an election year. Unless President Roosevelt demands more taxes they intimated that the House might exercise its right of being obstinate in conference...
Hour after hour like a well-drilled football team the ladlemen dipped and poured load after load. The completed mirror was to weigh 20 tons: that meant 100 trips. To a balcony commanding the scene 50 spectators at a time were admitted, quickly shooed away to make room for 50 more. Mingling with newshawks on three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees...
...button is marked "Present," the second "Yes," the third "No." Each button closes a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance, thus consuming a measured amount of electric current. In the power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current in use and charts the daily peak loads, is a Hopkins wattmeter on which the recording chart is driven 96 times faster than standard. A few inches of this fast chart are required to record the drain on the power house for only 30 seconds. If the 30 seconds are taken when the station load is fairly steady...
...make bidding "really competitive," only speed, useful load capacity and safety factors and devices should be considered in equipment specifications...
...year beginning next July and ending June 30, 1935, for which the President indicated a deficit of $2,000,000,000, we may have a larger deficit than was planned. Between now and that time, however, increased tax receipts and possibly a business revival may take some of the load from the Government, so that the important thing is to focus attention on the deficit of this year...