Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harmon, N. Y. where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write...
...early utility days, Mr. Insull likes best to recall the year 1903 when he installed in Chicago Edison's Fisk Street Station a generator of the steam turbine type much bigger than any previously used. On the day of the opening the engineer suggested that Mr. Insull leave the room...
...cobble-stones. the earth gives, and boots are splashed with brown. The sun is shining and great clouds trundle away or crumble in the blue like fallen ramparts. A housewife wipes her red hands upon an apron and smiles down at the first bewildering crocus. Horses in the shafts steam and try to forget their winter coats. Old gentlemen on Marl bore Street hang up their Chesterfields and derbies. Little boys go shouting into a tumbled house and little girls wear blue...
Since the summer of 1929 Duluth has hoped to have a steam corporation, one whose central plant would supply heating to the business district of Duluth just as New York Steam does in Manhattan.* In 1929 a franchise was obtained and P. W. Chapman & Co., Manhattan bankers, contracted to raise the needed $1,800,000. Market conditions made it impossible. In the autumn of 1930 the Chicago investment house of Haskell, Scott & Byrne pondered the matter. Partner Russell Wilfred Geyer investigated, found that market conditions were still impossible. But he had a smart idea, and last fortnight ground for Duluth...
...Last week New York Steam, despite Depression and the warmest year on record,, reported 1931 earnings of $2,019,000 against...