Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hockey practice will begin Monday. Four 1,500 watt lights will permit night skating and possibly night practice...
...then, the new $150,000 arena now being completed adjacent to Dillon Field House, will be put to its first formal use. Then, over 1800 gallons of cooled brine will speed through ten miles of pipe every minute, and eight sets of 6000-watt light fixtures will illumine a 200-by-35-foot playing surface...
Some of San Francisco's best financial brains are at work on the opera's board of directors. Among them: Utilities Executive Robert Watt Miller, Investment Banker Charles R. Blyth, Banker William W. Crocker, Broker Marco Hellman, Publisher (San Francisco Chronicle) George Cameron, Paper Magnate J. D. Zellerbach. These men have developed a practical method for handling annual deficits : holders of top-price season tickets (931 this year) pledge $50 each, get charged on a pro rata basis when the season's deficit is added up (last year: a nearly nominal $36,000). Cost of each year...
...short distance from the runway, a 240-watt searchlight circles slowly, its narrow beam arcing day and night across the base of low-lying clouds. Only 200 feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...
...minute before 9:30, CBS Producer Bill Wood took a last look at the tableau about to be flashed, through the facilities of the four major networks, to TV screens across the nation. The glare of twelve big lights, ranging from 750-watt "spots" to 1,000-watt "broads," beat brightly down on President Eisenhower, sitting behind a small desk, with his face and bald head aglow with pancake makeup. His big "cue cards," which had been brought in only after news photographers had been shooed out of the room, were ready before him. On his right sat Attorney General...