Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite its potency, Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., is not an independent company, is controlled by Harley Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Utilities Power & Light controls eight U. S. companies which supply electricity, also gas, to St. Louis, Indianapolis and 830 other U. S. cities and towns with a total population of more than 2,800,000. Counting its British subsidiary, Utilities Power & Light last year* showed a net of $5,999,168. Gross British revenues equalled about one-fourth of gross U. S. and British revenues combined...
...Today the whole aspect has changed. A tremendous movement to educate the people is in full swing. Every educated man in China-and the number of these men is becoming legion-is feverishly doing his utmost to make his country into a great, modern world Power...
...announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...
...United Light & Power Co. (500,000 preferred...
...hands of the Philistines"-as libertarians of the press viewed it-were delivered the Boston Herald and Traveler. Trustees of International Paper Co., whose purchase of these and other newspapers had excited great outcry because I. P. Co.'s owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...