Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volume of business," says Harry J. Bauer, vice president of New York Steam Corp., "is in the hands of the Lord." He can prove his point statistically: in 1940, when the average temperature during the heating season was 42 degrees (v. a "normal" of 43.2), New York Steam made $504,000; in 1941, when the thermometer averaged a muggy 45.5, the company lost...
...last week-though New York City was still digging itself out of a blizzard-even fatalistic Harry Bauer would admit that he owed his booming business more to the war than to the Lord. For the East Coast fuel-oil crisis had sent customers scurrying to buy steam a la carte instead of trying to generate their own. This plays right into the hands of New York Steam, which already has its mains running through the heart of the city...
Last year 279 new customers (a 15% increase in accounts) hooked up to New York Steam's 52 miles of steam mains and many of them were whoppers like the Ritz-Carlton and Plaza Hotels and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. They will boost the company's gross revenues by about $3,000,000 (30%) and lift its total steam sales to a brand-new high of 13 billion lb. Last month another 34 buildings gave up begging for fuel oil and took to steam. What all this new activity will do to New York Steam...
...Because the Navy would always have first call on oil supplies, Manhattan's tony Ritz Carlton Hotel will padlock its oil tanks, buy steam for power and heat from New York Steam Corp...
...Most ingenious solution was in Sloatsburg, N.Y., where little Ramapo Piece Dye Works rented an old Erie locomotive, rolled it on to a siding, piped it to the plant, hired a fireman to keep the engine at full steam...