Word: networks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme: to distribute gas much as electricity is now distributed, over a national, super-power network of piping...
Complex, the structure of the Swedish monopoly does not baffle knowing Swedes. At the centre of this network, holding...
More and more intricate became the network of drifts (tunnels), branching off from the vertical shafts. If the two weary prospectors who first jumped into the abandoned 6-foot pit tried to duplicate the feat today, they would fall more than a mile into the bowels of the earth. If they started to walk through the maze of drifts owned by the Anaconda company alone, they would not see the sunlight for 32 days. They would have covered 800 miles...
...remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence...
...Paul Henderson, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce came and told the President that airmail rates should be lowered, that a Caribbean airmail network was being surveyed. Before starting Caribbeanwards, President Coolidge found time to write Congress a note suggesting that $475,000 be added to the Department of Commerce appropriations for lighting U. S. airways, improving radio signal facilities...