Word: utilitarian
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...testified that 76 companies, most of which North American controls, servicing 687 communities, produce about 7% of the electric power consumed in the U. S. Its holdings are particularly heavy in Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, District of Columbia. Its largest single owner is Harrison Williams, New York utilitarian, who holds 27% of its stock through New Empire Corp. Other witnesses gave North American a fair bill of industrial health on the ground that it allows its subsidiaries free operating control, does not charge them exorbitant management fees...
...power and the plans for making the world's most prosperous nation more prosperous and happy than it had ever been before. Mr. Eaton, whose birthplace, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, had already benefited from his financial greatness, had power and plans only one degree smaller. A potent public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest rubber companies, he was about to bring order into an often chaotic industry. Furthermore, his financial plans were given a heroic cast because, through them...
Dozens of American colleges and universities are searching new paths. The great Western state universities are perforce tending to emphasize the utilitarian aspects of education which a mass electorate immediately recognizes. In the East the experiments, including the house plan, at the great universities, have held the spotlight of public attention. But the work of the smaller colleges which, as President Lowell says of Haverford, have been beacon lights on the road, sometimes go unnoticed. We forget that Harvard and Yale and Princeton made their national fame and established their enduring glory when they were no larger than Haverford today...
...submarine is a utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed...
...fixtures, kitchen appliances, high tension insulators. German business men know that he is directly responsible for the revival in 1921 of the Leipsig Fair, great European trade exposition, which seemed doomed in the days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain statuettes which his factories mould from designs by Germany's best known sculptors. Months ago Rosenthal managers pointed out a curious fact: the company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal...