Word: watt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawthorne, a young Pasadena disc jockey, used to be bored with his job ($85 a week). Sometimes he would sign off with a sneer: "This is KXLA, the 10,000-watt jukebox." But he is bored with his job no longer...
...diligence began paying off. He got Charlotte's permission to call the line she liked "Queen's Fare" and to style himself "Potter to the Queen." Wedgwood hired the best artists he could find, opened a factory, huge for those days, and powered it with James Watt's newfangled steam engines...
...waves, which women give themselves for $2 or less, had become a vastly profitable industry. The Rexall Drug chain had its own kit. So did Montgomery Ward & Co. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. was about to bring one out. Wailed a Boston beauty-shop owner to a Watt Street Journal reporter: "Don't talk to me about those things; I've lost half my customers already and unless we do something I'll lose the rest...
...Cock. The vast machine which now huffed & puffed for British Socialism was a monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...
responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...