Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multiplied the number of its customers 40 times by the simple expedient of expanding its list of products, a plan followed so thoroughly that 70% of last year's $10,000,000 business was in products such as Hancock Bronze Valves, Consolidated Power Control Valves, and Hancock Turbo-Injectors, which the company was not making...
...turn a subsidiary of National Power & Light Co., an Electric Bond & Share Co. affiliate). Although Pennsylvania Power already had contracts for emergency power from three other power companies and even from Bethlehem Steel, in 1928 it leased from Lehigh Valley Transit for $500,000 a year a turbo-generating plant at the corner of Front & Linden streets in Allentown. To date $4,300,000 has been paid for the rental of this emergency plant and in nine years it has been used twice- most recently for a few days during the 1936 floods. That time it had two weeks...
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...
...Paris the Bank of France again increased its phenomenally huge gold holdings last week and the French Line was able definitely to announce that France will complete the super-Ile de France, a ship larger and faster than any now afloat and the first transatlantic liner with "American type" turbo-electric drive. With a new State subsidy behind this French prosperity project, some 4,000 Frenchmen were riveting like so many steelpeckers all over the great hull last week, expected to launch her in October 1932, complete her for service...
...Luxurious New York-Panama Pacific Coast sailings headed by the turbo-electric marvels, S. S. Pennsylvania, S. S. Virginia and S. S. California (I. M. M.), to be supplemented with the Dollar freight service...