Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More electrical energy would be needed than is used by New York City. But when AEC asked 15 private power companies to join forces to build and run the new generating facilities, they jumped at the chance. Last week their Ohio Valley Electric Corp. filed a proposal with the SEC to sell $420 million in bonds and notes, one of the biggest private utility financings of all time, and more than eight times the federal funds originally appropriated...
...SEC Chairman Donald Cook, who spent ten years in the commission's public utilities division, last week became assistant to Utilityman Philip Sporn of big American Gas & Electric, and a vice president in A.G. & E.'s engineering and service subsidiary...
...record five craft went the whole way; no boatman was badly hurt. Elapsed-time records showed that the winner was Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...
...yawl Bolero, captained by John Nicholas Brown, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and with famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields serving as first mate, raced and outran a squall, finished her 466-mile run in a near calm to win in an elapsed 87 hr. 34 min. 42 sec...
...Kansas University Miler Wes Santee, who whipped the field by 25 yds. with a sparkling 4:03.7 race, just 1.3 sec. slower than the American record he set fortnight ago (TIME, June...