Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric pictures this New England as the result of a social, industrial, political snobbishness. New Englanders go about in high stiff collars, each tending his own business. They should take off their collars and work together.- Such is his diagnosis. The prescription includes the pooling of electric power resources in all the six New England states (including the Passamaquody tidal power project; see p. 28); the social unification of diverse peoples towards their common prosperity ("By and large New England is better off because of the immigration which she has had"); inter-related transportation ("Co-operation or unified action...
...Francisco the western office of Doremus & Co., advertising agency, was a "madhouse." The Western Power Corp. had entrusted its advertising of a $10,000,000 bond issue to this office, for simultaneous publication in Manhattan, Chicago and Boston. That was not unusual. Doremus & Co. are the largest financial advertising agency in the country. They have 324 accounts, practically every one a potent banking or investment house, such as Morgan & Co., Speyer & Co., Guaranty Trust Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., General Motors Acceptance Corp. One does not hold such customers by ordinary service. They want arch-service...
That day in San Francisco, just a few hours before the power corporation advertisement was to appear, certain facts developed that demanded changes in it. Normal telegraph instruction to the newspapers that were to carry the advertisement would have been too complicated and slow. It was impossible...
...drunk is he who from the floor Can rise again and stitt drink more, But drunk is he who prostrate lies Without the power to drink or rise...
...they need training. Then he proceeds to his main argument: Prohibition is working, cannot be thrown aside, can be made to work better. Important points: 1) "A great net good is being realized, including over six billion dollars a year in cold cash values." (Half due to increased earning-power due to sobriety, half due to savings not dissipated in drink...