Word: powering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tons? Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the jovial University of California physicist who invented the cyclotron (spiral atom-smasher), recently completed a new 220-ton cyclotron, so far the world's biggest, most powerful. Last week he gave a progress report on this monster in operation. With a power input of only 50 kilowatts (more than enough to run a good-sized radio station), he and his crew have obtained beams of 16-million-volt heavy hydrogen particles and 32-million-volt helium particles. With the 32-million-volt beam, new radioactive substances throwing off electrified helium gas have been discovered...
Production of electric power in the U. S. last fortnight amounted to 2,493,993,000 kilowatt hours, which looks like almost as handsome a number as the U. S. 1939 deficit. Actually it is a very handsome number. It means that electric utilities is one industry which is not only producing 12% more than in lowly 1938, not only 10% more than in rattling 1937, but is selling to consumers about 20% more than in luscious...
...reason for this hunt for new capacity is partly Act of God. Last summer's drought lowered the level of the rivers which feed the 27% of U. S. power capacity which is hydro instead of steam. Last year when water was plentiful, hydro output set a new record: 41,500,000,000 kilowatt hours, 38% of the total...
...August 1939, when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason...
...October 1938 one attempt was made to break the log jam. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson got up a National Defense Power Committee on which the New Deal's very power-minded Corcoran-Cohen organization was also represented. Mr. Johnson rounded up the topflight utility bosses (one of whom, white-mustached, aristocratic Hobart Porter of American Water Works, once used him as a Washington lawyer), got them to pledge to invest up to $1,000,000,000 a year on war emergency plant in 1939 and 1940. One power executive remarked: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave...