Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southeast's idea of itself is increasingly industrial and commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
Across the Great Smoky Mountains lies Chattanooga, "Dynamo of Dixie," below and beyond which (an inch off the map) is Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River in Alabama, where stand the 612,000 h.p. Federal power plants...
...Casino Syndicate has used its monopoly power to the detriment of all other "enterprises" in Monaco, suppressing cinema theatres and discontinuing fetes which used to fill even the small hotels with tourists. 4) The authority of the Crown and the extent of the crown lands are still so vaguely defined that in practice the Prince-and in his name the Casino Syndicate-has frequently acted in a manner arbitrary, unjust, scandalous. Finally the resigned and angry councilors made formal demand upon Prince Pierre that he summon his father-in-law Prince Louis from Paris and set up a commission...
Shrewd Bachia Sakao, chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...