Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed power rate "yardstick," as developed by Lilienthal, was false because from TVA's rate bases were omitted many costs which private utilities would have had to meet; the power loads built up to bring rates down were built haphazardly, wastefully, with expensive ballyhoo...
...natural photosynthesis of plants). Since plants themselves store solar energy, there is also the possibility of using plants themselves for fuel-e.g., powdered cornstalks instead of powdered coal. Last year sun-minded Mr. Cabot gave Harvard $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants store solar energy (TIME, June...
BEETHOVEN : TRIPLE CONCERTO IN C MAJOR FOR VIOLIN, CELLO, PIANO & ORCHESTRA (Vienna Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting, with Richard Odnoposoff, Stefan Auber and Angelica Morales; Columbia: 9 sides). Second-rate Beethoven, with only fair-to-middling performance from the soloists. But the recording of this rarely performed piece will interest Beethoven enthusiasts...
...first to link escapists and colonizers, Author Millin pounds out the link with an uncommonly honest and brilliant, if uneven, vigor; almost, as in her other eleven novels (God's Stepchildren, et al.), writes a first-rate book. Mainly she fails through too much haste. (Her biographies -Cecil Rhodes, General Smuts-took a whole year to write. Her novels get themselves written in a month...
...Harvard committee will also request that the second ambulance be attached to "one of the medical units in Barcelona, or some other large city, where it will be used to give succor to those injured in air raids. Because it can travel at a greater rate of speed and can hold more persons, it has been found that a vehicle such as is contemplated is more satisfactory, than a regulation ambulance in afflicted areas...