Word: rutlander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week to generate electricity for its homes and factories. Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes-the size and shape of a bomber's wings-began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts-enough electricity to light 2,000 homes. Wholly automatic, with its performance recorded by frequent photographs of its dial board, it will produce current about 4,000 hours a year (i.e., about half...
...dealers and cataloguers of three continents last week scratched the name of a famous painting from their lists of the world's masterpieces. It was Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of the 4th Duke of Rutland, long known in art circles (by an analogy with Gainsborough's much more celebrated Blue Boy} as the Black Boy. Along with two other valuable paintings-Gainsborough's landscape, The Wayfarer, and a portrait of Charles the Bold by an unknown Flemish artist-the Black Boy came to an unworthy...
...Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, three of the six States which make up New York City's giant milkshed, striking farmers picketed dairy plants and highways, dumped milk in the roads, poured kerosene on trucks, fired at State troopers. At Pulaski, N.Y., a woman picket was injured. At Rutland, Vt., a deputy sheriff was killed...
Howard I. Grossman 1L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Philip Kazon 2L, Rutland, Vt; Klaus Braun 2L, Wiesbaden, Germany; Sidney Werlin 2L, Malden; James H. Wilson Jr. 1L, Tifton, Ga.; Lawrence F. Ebb 1L, Dorchester; and Julius L. Shack 2L, Mattapan...
Married. Lucile Sheppard, Radcliffe graduate student, third daughter of Texas' mild, old Dry Senator Morris Sheppard, who sponsored the 18th Amendment; and Arthur W. Keyes Jr., Harvard architectural student from Rutland, Vt.; in the presence of the Texas and Vermont Congressional delegations, Vice President Wallace, New Jersey's Governor Edison; in Washington...