Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiments pre- ceded and made possible the 2,000,000-volt flashes at the Pittsfield plant last June (TIME, June 18). Steinmetz had often predicted the course of future technical development. Last August he wrote that a four-hour day would accomplish all essential work in 2023 A.D. The steam locomotive will be obsolete, smoke eliminated. All heat, power, light furnished by hydroelectricity...
...bulk of the current would be produced by waterpower from such projects, as the Roosevelt (Ariz.) and Keokuk (la.) dams, supplanting the steam-power system which now furnishes five-sixths of the nation's horse power at tremendous waste of coal, oil, human labor and rapidly replaced machinery. There is available in North America 65,000,000 h.p. from water alone, which would be supplanted by steam power only in extreme drought. Hoover's plan, while looking to large future development, contemplates at first only the interconnection of existing utility systems and common action in the erection...
...continued: " I have never opposed Mr. Ford's securing the use of this waterpower or any other equipment we have, provided he is able to give such assurance of its being devoted to this particular purpose [manufacture of nitrates]. That he could ever economically make nitrates by steam power is denied by every expert adviser. The fact that he says his offer is still open would seem to indicate that he does not regard the Gorgas steam plant as necessary...
...Presidential candidate in 1924. The whole matter rose out of Muscle Shoals. During the War the Government built a dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., and two plants for the manufacture of nitrates for explosives. The project is not yet completed. To hasten affairs the Government also constructed a temporary steam plant, the "Gorgas plant," 90 miles away on the land of the Alabama Power Co. The power company reserved the right to purchase the plant later at a fair valuation or to have the Government remove it. The whole project cost about...
...appeal of the detective story is the same as that of any other novel, except that the elements of conflict and struggle, always present, are here emphasized with much of the delicacy of a steam riveter. For the subtle play of intelligence on intelligence; the struggle of a finite humanity against the merciless irony of nature, agreeably substituted the somewhat less ethereal play of nitroglycerine on steel-the writhing of infinite intellect in mortal combat with invincible guile...