Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, before the Edison Electrical Institute meeting in Buffalo, OPM's William Loren Batt made the shortage sound more ominous. Estimating that 1,000,000 new kilowatts were required for expanded aluminum output alone, he recommended the extension of daylight saving time all over the nation. SEC Chairman Eicher chimed in: "Competent authorities are predicting that serious generating deficiencies will be encountered in many areas...
...wheel of the Noc-Out Special, also owned by Lou Moore. Replacing Davis at 177 miles, Rose had pushed the American-made Noc-Out from the ruck to the front of the parade, was a full lap ahead at the finish line. Time: 4 hr., 20 min., 36.24 sec.-for an average speed of 115.117 m.p.h. Of 31 starters, twelve finished...
Like a casting director with one eye on the box office, President Roosevelt has picked moderately big names for SECommissioners. Last week he changed that policy. To fill the vacancy created when Jerome Frank became a Federal judge, he chose an SEC career man, scarcely known at all outside Washington and Wall Street: tall, calm, taciturn, young (36) Ganson Purcell...
...Dealers who have been quietly working with the hard facts of Government administration while older men made policies and headlines. He has been a Government man since he left Harvard Law School in 1930. Ex-Yale Professor Bill Douglas liked his tough, factual mind, helped make him chief of SEC's important Trading & Exchange Division...
...Four University of California trackmen (John Reese, Grover Klemmer, Dick Peter, Clarence Barnes): two-mile relay, feature race of Los Angeles' brand-new Coliseum Relays, in 7 min., 34.5 sec.; breaking by 1.3 sec. the world's record set by a team of U.S. Olympic stars (Hornbostel, Young, Williamson, Woodruff) at London...