Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these important new proposals, the heat in the Senate was generated by the shopworn issue of public v. private steam plants. Last month President Eisenhower ordered the AEC to contract with private companies for electricity, which it will be needing beyond the amount already being supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...said it could supply cheaper power by building new steam plants with Government money. The Administration held that even if TVA could do the job more cheaply, the Government should stay out of the steam-plant business as much as possible. Led by Senators from the TVA area, e.g., Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, public-power enthusiasts, mostly Democrats, sided with the TVA. They decided to fight for a rider on the AEC bill that would block the Eisenhower order...
...hits. But last week, no fewer than three tunes from The Pajama Game, Broadway's brightest musical of the season, were tweaking jukebox and disk-jockey fancies: a slinky, satirical tango called Hernando's Hideaway was high on the bestseller record lists, a rowdy novelty called Steam Heat was also on the lists, and the show's big ballad, Hey There, suddenly showed signs of becoming...
...chief reason for the change is not safety. The Navy switched to the "steam slingshot" mainly because it is faster and vastly more powerful. On larger carriers like the Forrestal, four steam catapults will launch as many as 32 interceptors in four minutes...
...STOP AIRLINE RACE is still picking up steam. Lockheed has modified T.W.A.'s Super Connies to add 10 m.p.h. to their speed, bring them within 23 m.p.h. of American Airlines' 360 m.p.h...