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...York Edison, Brooklyn Edison, United Electric Light & Power. Bronx Gas & Electric and New York & Queens Electric Light & Power to reduce the domestic rate from 7¢ to 5¢ per kilowatt hour but to add a 60¢ charge to every monthly bill for "meter service." Such a rate cut would lop $5,390,000 off the power company's annual income. The meter charge, however, would increase the price of electricity to 57% of the consumers. A consumer at the reduced rates would have to use more than 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per month to get his money's worth from...
...order sculpture, poetry, music. Psychiatrists are just beginning to interpret what they have long observed?the close connection between the psychopath and the artist on one hand, the psychopath and the criminal on the other.?Professor Wilhelm Weygandt of the University of Hamburg. His patients produce modernistic paintings?lop-sided faces, elongated beasts, geometrical patterns?comparable to those of the modern masters. But not all such artists, said he, are mentally unbalanced. Some draw
...torrid weather all windows will be kept closed while machinery in the basement supplies air cooled by the equivalent of 30 tons of melting ice per day. Meanwhile builders on the $160,000 reconstruction job were trying to earn the $200 bonus they will get for every day they lop off on the 90-day contract schedule, to avoid a $200-per-day forfeit for overtime...
...private office, picked up his telephone to inquire about his good friend Secretary of War Good, then on his way to the operating room at Walter Reed Hospital. The three visitors returned to the Treasury by the back way. That evening Secretary Mellon announced the President's plan to lop 1% from 1929 income and corporation taxes...
Having defeated Brother Bramwell's effort to depose her, Aunt Evangeline suddenly took the offensive. She led a movement to lop away Brother Bramwell's autocratic power, and make the office of generalissimo hereafter elective rather than dynastic. Invoking the memory of Father William, Brother Bramwell rejected all such proposals. Then he fell sick...