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...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...
...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...