Word: looming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Mr. Insull is considered chiefly a Middle West utilitarian, proper ties along the Atlantic seaboard now loom in his picture, contribute about one-fifth of total earnings. First of his eastern moves was to acquire Twin State Gas & Electric (Maine, New Hampshire, New York & Vermont) in 1913. In 1927 he bought National Electric Power (not to be confused with Electric Bond & Share's National Power & Light) and embarked upon a rapid expansion in New England. Frustrated by Maine's laws against the export of power, he turned to developing Maine's industries to boost consumption. Last year a subsidiary...
...Barber-Colman [TIME, Sept. 21, p. 55] and it's a spooler and a warper - two different machines. . . . Also this system is acknowledged to be one of the foremost developments of past decade in textile manufacturing, greatly speeding up & simplifying the preparation of the warp threads for the loom and the weaving process. Preparation of the cotton fibre for weaving is a complicated process with too many operations involved. Present mills are seeing and will see a good many simplifications and combinations of these spinning operations (occurring prior to the spooling & warping mentioned above). You might call attention...
...Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly in a trick rockerless rocker Lloyd Loom Chair he sent...
...champion such a crude device as the hand spinning wheel? Inventions are the inheritance of mankind and should be .allowed to relieve the burdens of mankind. I am diametrically opposed," wound up Cinemactor Chaplin with a Churchillian flourish, "to the abolition of machinery!" "The hand wheel and the hand loom," answered Spinner Gandhi, "are necessary to provide occupation for India's millions. Modern machinery installed in India would
...Climax of the Gandhi week was the Mahatma's pilgrimage to cotton-spinning, overproducing Lancashire. Intensely practical, Mr. Gandhi had no idealistic notion that he could relieve unemployment in this distressed British area by inducing capitalists to scrap their textile machinery, or unemployed workers to adopt the hand loom. What the small brown man was after was to drive a shrewd bargain in business-plus-politics. Before leaving London in a third-class smoking compartment, Non-Smoker Gandhi let it be known that if the powerful industrialists of Lancashire and other depressed British textile areas will bring pressure upon...