Word: meter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service Commission on the proposal of the New 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...
Married. Henry H. Sprague, 72, inventor of the Sprague gas meter, president of Sprague Meter Co. of Bridgeport, Conn.; and his nurse-companion, Hattie Magness, 33, of Forrest City...
...Morris Davis of Manhattan, Jewish deaf mute: the Metropolitan Association A. A. U.'s 50,000 meter (31 mi. 121 yd.) walking race. Time...
...yard free style should be a grand race, with Austin Clapp of Stanford, Ray Ruddy of Columbia, and Garnett Ault of Michigan vying for top honors. Clapp finished third in the 800-meter race at the Olympics, beating Ruddy. But Ruddy loafed through the last 100 yards of the 440 at Yale in 5 minutes, 5 seconds, and Ault has turned in a time 4 seconds less than that. So it should be a battle royal. Shields, of Brigham Young, won the event last year in 4 minutes, 57 4-5 seconds...
Last week, the Times-Star was able to substantiate its priority claim with documentary evidence. Careful Miss Wheeler had obtained and mailed home a testimonial letter signed by J. L. R. Van Meter, Vice President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. This letter the Times-Star reproduced, explaining: "It is not necessary for a reporter to go on the witness stand or make an affidavit every time he brings a news story into the office. . . . However . . . when a newspaper does something that no newspaper in the world has ever done there are apt to be some doubters. In order to prove...