Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission ships are powered with steam turbines or diesel engines, cost from $2,000,000 to $2,800,000 apiece...
...three years International House has been forced to pay the exorbitant rent of $1800 per year. This has not included the added expenses of steam heat, gas, or even drinking water. For the past three years Brooks House has come to its rescue by paying part of the yearly deficit. But after loaning $1400 Brooks House has reached the limit of its financial sympathy. Only an outright rental reduction can keep its protege from the coroner's grasp. It is paradoxical that college students should have to fight their University to maintain their living quarters. Students should be able...
...whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions of air, water, sun, earth, and subtlest chance...
...order for the Japanese fleet, with a cruising radius of less than 2,000 miles, to steam the more than 4,000 miles from Yokohama to our West Coast, and then back again to Japan, it would have to take a large number of slow, highly vulnerable supply ships for the purpose of refueling and repair. With our Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor this could never be done, since the auxiliary ships would fall easy prey to American guns. The same holds true for an American attack on Japan. It is 3,394 miles from Honolulu to Yokohama...
...high-pressure turbine, with its leap from 30 to 50% energy-conversion, was greeted by powermen last week as one more potent argument against President Roosevelt's long dreamed-of St. Lawrence seaway-power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control...