Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robinson: "Yes; I did say that it was unworthy of the Senator from Alabama. . . . I say now to the Senator from Alabama, in moderate language, that I am amazed, I am amazed beyond the power of expression, that he would bring the name of a lady into this controversy, even though she be a Catholic...
Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...
Japanese Electricity. The largest corporation in Japan (capital, $20,000,000; gross annual earnings $55,000,000) was formed last week upon the merging of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. and the Tokyo Electric Power Co. One of the largest public utility companies in the world, it operates over 10,000,000 sq. mi. of Japanese territory, serves 10,000,000 (one-sixth) of Japan's population. The Guaranty Company of Manhattan helped accomplish the merger...
...coal mines hamper the factories. They must import almost all their raw materials. Expensive materials and frail employes explain why textiles constitute the chief manufactured products of Italy, why food products come next, why steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores of potential power-her precipitate rivers. Great electric power companies have built hydroelectric plants from the Alps down along the Apennines and in Sicily. They produced two years...
...Freshman outfit shows less prospective power, according to sport followers who have been watching practice. The first year men who are scheduled to run are A. L. Watkins '31, J. P. Gray '31, R. J. Boches '31, and W. C. Rowe...