Word: watts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following are the complete results: Second Senior Class Elections (March 9-10, 1937.) For Secretary: (1) Robert Crossett Holcombe 102 Charles Wells Hubbard, 3rd 89 George Gordon Hedblom 85 William John Watt 82 George Franklin Mahoney 69 Dunbar Carpenter 55 Robert Edward Purdy 30 For Permanent Class Committee (6) Malcolm Bodwell McTernen, Jr. 302 Charles Colmery Gibson 279 Leavitt Sargent White 267 Rolf Kaltenborn 208 Peter Hobart Knapp 170 Perry James Culver 165 Daniel Erskine Burbank, Jr. 153 James Arnott Elliott Wood 151 Walter Hines Page, 2nd 148 Curtis Prout 146 Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr. 138 William Bernard Berssenbrugge...
Historically Power goes back to Edison, Ohm and Faraday to trace the origins of the force it presents as a maladministered boon. Technically it begins with the definition of a kilowatt hour ("When this thousand-watt bulb burns for an hour, that's a kilowatt hour"). From then on, by means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket...
...Class Secretary, the names of William John Watt and Robert Edward Purdy were added. For Permanent Class Committee Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr., Daniel Erskine Burbank, Jr., Frederick Phillip Glike, David Blanding MacIntosh, Charles Wheeler O'Connor, and Edward Lorraine Young, III, were nominated by petition...
This scheme was tried out in Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...
...Table No. 1, "The Maintenance of Employment," 15 people have been written or interviewed. Those who have accepted definitely are: Dr. Isador Lubin, economist, at present U.S.Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Frank W. Pierce, exeutive assistant to Walter Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; Robert J. Watt, secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor; Ex-Governor Winant, head of the Social Security Board; and Royal Parkinson, manager of personnel activities of the American Optical Company...