Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailed on alone. At 6:16 on a grey, cold morning, ship watchers at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay reported tersely: ''British warship, King George V class, off Norfolk waters."* Through a morning mist the battleship swung northwest, past the mouth of the Potomac, the inlets of Maryland's Eastern Shore, to drop anchor, invisible in the rain and fog, five miles from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. If Lord and Lady Halifax were waiting for a first glimpse of the U. S. they saw a desolate one-a waste of grey water, a cold, grey...
...outlines visible to the naked eye. Its holdings (exclusive of unconsolidated investments) have a book value of $626,500,000. About $350,000,000 of this is in a well-integrated system selling electricity in an area 30 by 80 miles in southeast Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia), northern Maryland and Delaware. Another big unit (Connecticut Light & Power Co.) sells electricity and gas to three-fourths of Connecticut. In addition U. G. I. controls scattered properties in Tennessee, New Hampshire, Missouri, Arizona...
Section 11 states that holding companies shall limit their operations to "a single integrated public-utility system." What this means to U. G. I., according to the SEC blueprint, is that it may keep the electric properties of its Pennsylvania-Delaware-Maryland system, will have to get rid of its gas and other properties, including unconsolidated investments (valued at $128,600,000) in other utilities. If the integration goes through as blueprinted, U. G. I. will cast off dominions which produced over...
Among the dozen-odd other Episcopal diocesans already over 72 are: New York's William Thomas Manning, 74; Pennsylvania's Francis Marion Taitt, 79; Washington's James Edward Freeman, 74; Pittsburgh's Alexander Mann, 80; Maryland's Edward Trail Helfenstein...
...exquisitely befuddled. He told reporters that President Roosevelt could bring about a "just peace" in Europe if he were willing, that the President could force Hitler into peace by threatening to enter the war on the British side if the peace terms weren't "reasonable." Senators Tydings of Maryland, Vandenberg of Michigan, McCarran of Nevada, Holt of West Virginia, Johnson of Colorado all chorused this sentiment, with bass and tenor variations. Next morning the New York Times demanded to know what they meant by "a just peace": just to whom? To The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Poland, France, CzechoSlovakia...