Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...
Three weeks ago the Richmond Times-Dispatch, reporting the International Paper & Power Co. investigation, stated, in effect, that John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the rival Richmond News-Leader, had gone to North Carolina to buy a newspaper for I. P. & P. Publisher Bryan prepared a $500,000 libel suit against the Times-Dispatch (TIME, May 27). Last week the Times-Dispatch expressed public regrets for the statement. The Bryan suit was withdrawn...
Last week's Big Rumor in Boston: that International Paper & Power would soon sell its newspaper holdings...
...city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons of his own race in the U. S. He would install power in the Pedro Gorino, transport U. S. Negroes back to Africa by the boatload. But his race brethren gave him no support...
...Spencer Trask Co., bankers, and a director in New Era Motor Car Co., Ruxton builders) is the front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination...