Word: steamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river stages in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, TVA's area in the South cut down the hydroelectric power supply, sent steam-plant output soaring. TVA with all its dams, had to turn on fuel burning plants which it took over from Commonwealth & Southern last summer...
...regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous to raise the famed old cry of "I spy!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose at 3 : 5 7 p.m. and observed...
MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL-Virginia Lee Burton - Houghton Mifflin...
...Nitroparaffms. Last spring Chemist Henry Bohn Hass of Purdue announced production of two new explosives, "nibglycerol trinitrate" and "nibglycol dinitrate," by combining steam, nitrogen from air, methane and ethane from natural gas (TIME, April 17). Now dozens of other nitroparaffins similarly formed are available for making plastics, dyes, textiles, cosmetics, floor waxes, rubber...
...less than 50 miles from the border, the greatest iron deposit on the American continent, our ore running 60 to 68%, with millions of tons which can be picked up by steam shovel. This is not far from Presidio on the Texas border line. Our engineers predict that at some future time in world history, the western hemisphere will get all its ore from this section...