Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the Authority spent on Wilson, Wheeler and Norris Dams, $49,360,179, or 52% of the cost, has been allotted to power, the rest to flood control and navigation, none for fertilizer or national defense. The 52% figure was arrived at by charging to power the $23,967,177 spent specifically for power development, plus 40% of the cost remaining when this and specific expenditures for flood control and navigation had been deducted. With rates based on this allocation, opined Chairman Harcourt Morgan, TVA's power sales "will be sufficient to cover all of the costs of operation...
...strong combination crew; somewhat rearranged a while ago when Jack Wilson replaced Barr Comstock at Stroke, has shaped up quickly and has a better-than-even chance of overpowering the Elis...
...Wilson Observatory in California is a seismological station so sensitive that trucks rumbling up the observatory road make tremors on the recording drums. Once a series of jiggles was traced to a child pounding a plank 400 yards away from the station. U. S. seismologists are not much disconcerted however. They have learned that it is easy to distinguish false jiggles because the record made by a real earthquake has a characteristic contour...
Married. Harold Fowler McCormick, 66, twice-married (to Edith Rockefeller, Ganna Walska) chairman of International Harvester Co.; to Adah Wilson. 34. nurse who tended the late Jean Harlow before she died, nursed Mr. McCormick this winter during a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif...
...19th. Under his editorship, the Atlantic startled its readers with Ernest Hemingway's Fifty Grand, which volatile Ray Long had rejected as too much for his more popular magazines, and Gertrude Stein's unorthodox Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Atlantic welcomed controversial essays from Woodrow Wilson. Alfred E. Smith, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur E. Morgan, Herbert Hoover. But never did it forget that it was essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier. Other Atlantic contributors who have made literary history include: Robert Browning...