Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Niagara's Horseshoe Falls, there is an enormous power plant. Before it was built, engineers had gasped at the thought of such a thing...
...Muscle Shoals, Ala., the world's largest hydro-electric plant -600,000 h. p. in spring floods, 100,000 h. p. minimum-is now being built. Its construction is under the astute eye of Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, one of the two brothers responsible for the Keokuk and Niagara plants, not to mention various South American projects of great magnitude which they have designed, separately and together...
...continuous fall of water over the power dam from the upper to the lower pool, a fall which Engineer Cooper estimates would produce a constant output of between 500,000 and 700,000 h. p. convertible into some 3,268 millions kilowatt hours a year. (Muscle Shoals, largest plant, turns out 700 million...
...Stout Company makes the all-metal (duraluminum) monoplanes which the Fords have been trying out experimentally as commercial freight carriers for their own business. The Stout plant was reported to have changed hands for about $1,000,000. William B. Stout, founder of the Company, will remain as engineer of the "Stout Airplane Division of the Ford Motor...
Altogether, some 146 articles are made from the corn plant, including axle grease, face powder, shoe heels, cigaret holders, gunpowder, incense, phonograph records, shaving soap, shoe horns, varnish...