Word: saguenay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next problem was to find cheat) electric power. This, it happened, was easy. Tobacco-man James B. Duke (died last October) was just completing in 1924 the huge waterpower development on the Saguenay River in Canada. His plant cost $40,000,000. It would generate 600,000 horsepower of electricity a year and do it so cheaply that current could be sold for $12 per one horsepower per year. At this rate bauxite could be hauled to the Saguenay, be reduced in electric furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer...
With the completion of the heavy term of the Supreme Court, all that awaited the very merry and beloved gentleman was rest, complete rest. His doctor forbade all divertisements in the haunts of men. He was bidden to go straight to his home at Murray Bay, near the Saguenay River, and there wait the Summer out. Sitting on the St. Lawrence, he must practice being healthy according to his dictum: "Oranges and discipline, that's the recipe...