Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grover Aloysius Whalen unveiled his $157,000,000 New York World's Fair last April, he figured that out-of-town customers would be storming its gates by July 1. Instead of a Big Push he got an attendance so low that he was moved fortnight ago to start making reduced rates (reduced parking fees, bargain admissions for large groups) to fairgoers. Last week...
Curtain's Fall. In 1933 smart, aggressive Harvard-man Dave Lilienthal, who had been fighting the ogre of private ownership as a member of the Wisconsin utility commission, took over TVA. Member of a three-man board, he dominated it from the start, became chairman two years ago when old Arthur Ernest Morgan, onetime president of Antioch (work-learn) College, was fired after a spectacular battle against Lilienthal policies. From the start utilitymen never doubted that Dave Lilienthal intended to run every private utility out of the Tennessee Valley...
...Worked over the House's changes in Social Security so as to: 1) freeze at 1% (instead of 1½%) the old-age insurance tax for both employer and employe; 2) raise widows' payments; 3) start payments in 1940 instead of 1942; 4) increase payments to workers who leave employment early (before 60). In the old-age grant section, the Senate provided that the U. S. should contribute $10 for the first $5 put up by a State, match dollars thereafter, thus assuring a total grant of $25 per month for needy oldsters in States willing to give...
...Pittsburgh last week the Westinghouse laboratories announced a new type of lightning recorder. Called a "fulchronograph," it gives a complete picture of a lightning stroke's intensity, from start to finish. Essential feature is a wheel with 400 iron fins on its rim, revolving at 3,400 r.p.m. A lightning arrester no bigger than a quart-size fruit jar receives the bolt, discharges it harmlessly through its coils. In these coils the lightning sets up a varying magnetic field in which the fulchronograph wheel spins. Each iron fin of the fulchronograph is magnetized according to the intensity...
...skyscraper Cathedral of Learning. The record of one bolt passing through the arrester and dissected by the fulchronograph shows that it reached a crest of 21,000 amperes, then fell rapidly (in 100 microseconds) to 1,000 amperes, and from that point more slowly to zero. From start to finish the flash lasted one-sixtieth of a second. Engineer Wagner intends to acquire a complete gallery of different types of bolt, then redesign the arresting equipment on transmission lines in accordance with what he learns...