Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Page 7 March 19 issue of TIME states "Miles Poindexter Spokane, of the City of SEATTLE." . . . Spokane, the City of Sunshine and power, is proud to claim Miles Poindexter as one of its most illustrious citizens. MAJOR G. S. CLARKE, U. S. A. Syracuse...
...Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against "the power trust...
...Among the common advantages to British manufacturers starting in Canada are ridiculously low taxation, compared with the taxation in Great Britain, electricity, a comparatively cheap form of industrial power, and Canada's enjoyment of an enviable freedom from industrial disputes...
Though these phrases rang out against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...
Alexander Legge, president of the International Harvester Co. of America, (farm implements, wagons, tractors, trucks) announced a net profit for 1927 of $23,359,215 (1926 profits amounted to $22,658,891); prophesied that "the company's future in the present 'power farming' era seems secure...