Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With her steam-plumed whistle barking, the low, trim Lake tanker Paratex moved down Toledo's Maumee River, cleared Cedar Point, and pushed her blunt bow towards Detroit. The Great Lakes shipping season was open-a month ahead of time on Lake Erie, but none too early. For this year all records must be broken...
...There was a new note in the air now. It was a sound like shough or a steam train getting under way. . . . I threw myself into a ditch again. . . . Then the Japanese straggled away over the horizon...
...coal situation now is very much better than in 1918, when fuel rationing was so acute that steam had to be turned off in he buildings at 9 o'clock in the evening, and the use of artificial light was cut to a minimum...
These vessels range from converted steam and diesel yachts, trawlers, and power boats to Coast Guard Cutters, minesweepers, and net tenders...
...power all the new mines, mills and smelters, Ickes proposed no less than 17 new electric generating projects in twelve States. Some were waterpower projects, others steam; their total cost would be $270,000,000 in normal times but $350,000,000 now; they would provide 1,480,000 kilowatts of capacity and would pay out in 40 years (taking their cost at $270,000,000) with rates of around 3 mills per kwh. The 17 projects were merely samples, said Ickes; further study would turn up many similar opportunities throughout the West...