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...mile for stringing lines to their doors." So far as Detroit Edison Co. is concerned, their rate book shows that they charge $500 per mile for stringing the lines to their customers. If the customers connect to the line at the time it is strung, each customer receives a rebate of $100. If, then, there are five customers in any mile, the line-stringing costs the customers nothing. If there were but one customer to a mile, it would cost but ($400. . . . J. A. GALLERY Tuscola County Advertiser Caro, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After dark, many men, women, children, cows and chickens in three counties saw electric light for the first time in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Electrified Thumb | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...Thumb Electric Cooperative, whose members strung the lines and own them, was started almost three years ago by Farmer Frank Wilson and his neighbor, E. C. Stieg. Promoters Wilson, Stieg and their neighbors borrowed $2,000,000 for their cooperative from the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington. What Governor Murphy called the "beginning of a new social order" for The Thumb, which will eventually own 1,300 miles of REA lines, was also a milestone for REA, the most extensive and expensive project it had yet promoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Electrified Thumb | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...Mandates Commission by His Majesty's Government's Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies, Sir John Shuckburgh. Following a suggestion of mail-fisted Sir Charles Tegart, now adviser to the Palestine Government on the suppression of terrorism, a barbed wire barrier to keep out terrorists is being strung along the entire Palestine frontier at a cost of $450,000. This includes a nine-foot barbed wire fence between Palestine and French-mandated Lebanon and Syria, which border Palestine on the north and northeast. A lot of Palestine's tougher Arabs come from those two mandates. The fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tegart's Wall | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...original offer, and the city's savings (from lower rates, etc.) would amount to $1,000,000. He will charge regular TVA rates: 75? for 25 kilowatt hours a month for residential use (T. P. S. rates: $1 for 15 kilowatt hours). City poles and wires already strung can be used to replace worn out poles and wires in the T. P. S. system when Mr. Mynatt takes it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Constructive Work | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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