Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been announced that all application for personal use will be fined. It will nowever, be necessary, to establish a draw by lot for all non-personal applications and to nil them as long as the tickets last. In no case will more than two tickets be allotted...
...Ordinarily street electric lamps are turned on and off in groups, by men throwing switches in scattered control stations in various parts of the community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts now is a small radio...
William Randolph Hearst cried out in his Journal that the Herald's "Personal" column was promoting immorality, obtained the indictment of Bennett for improper use of the U. S. mails. Bennett pleaded guilty and paid a $25,000 fine...
Broom corn grows in sandy Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma soil. It is still a valuable crop, despite vacuum cleaners' wide use. The U. S. crop this year is worth about $4,000,000. Last week growers set up a cry; they need harvest hands at once, else the crop may be spoiled...
...Critics & others, sated with many a propagandrama for or against hostilities, frequently have wished for a pact to outlaw war as an instrument of national amusement policy. But let no critic ban war or dressmaking or boxing or any other subject as a playground if playsmiths can use war, dressmaking or boxing to a worthy end, as in this piece...