Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases in Britain by Canadian tourists. For his part, Thorneycroft soothingly took the steam out of his free-trade proposal by describing it as such a long-term project, i.e., twelve to 15 years, that he expected no official Canadian reply...
...next year will start building biggest U.S. steam generating unit. Located 45 miles southwest of Chattanooga, the $86 million generator will have capacity...
PUCCINI: "Perfect for ironing. One needs some lush, lyrical and isolated selection to get one through a cotton blouse or dress. Puccini is particularly good if one does not have a steam iron and has to dampen things. One can cry automatically, gently and without despair, which helps in the dampening...
...mile-long line linking Casper with Billings, Mont. At Billings the $7,200,000 line of the Pacific Power & Light Co. hooks into the big Pacific Northwest power pool. Next year the line will be extended from Casper to nearby Glenrock, Wyo., to link up a $23 million steam electric plant which Pacific Power is rushing to completion. With the new plant operating, Wyoming's electric generating capacity will increase 50%, transforming the state from a power-deficit area, shunned by industry, to a highly attractive power-surplus area...
When a group of townspeople asked Pacific Power & Light, which had recently bought out local Wyoming electric utility interests, to build a coal-fired steam electric plant at Glenrock, the company had no more idea of complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke...