Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forward, Woods!" cried Albert Woods to his diary in the high spirits of youth. "Let your light shine!" Poor Albert-fate had equipped him with a million-watt ambition, but his soul was wired for common house-current. Or, as British Author William Cooper states it in this entertaining novel about The Struggles of Albert Woods: "Can you be a great man if you have a touch of the little man? That was Albert Woods's life problem...
...wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...
...contending they would be enormous "white elephants." But the Army engineers built the dam anyway. Industries took root in the Columbia Basin that could not have existed without the new power. Aluminum companies constructed plants in Washington, each ton of their metal requiring electricity enough to burn a sixty-watt light bulb for thirty-eight years. A tremendous lumber industry developed which also gulped large quantities of power...
...Lewis J. McKesson, a former Voice engineer, testified that two 1,000,000-watt transmitters the agency was building in the U.S. were "not properly located." Both sites, he said, lie within the earth-girdling magnetic-storm belt; if located outside the belt, the transmitters would cost $18 million less to build, and require 90% less power. A Voice official named Frederick Freeman added that the contract for building one of the two transmitters had been awarded to "the least eligible of 14 bidders." Soon after Freeman testified, Voice Boss Wilson M.Compton ordered work on both projects halted...
...walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest tin mine in Bolivia has brought to Huanuni is a 25-watt lamp that hangs incongruously from the thatched roof...