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Like its bigger competitor, General Electric, Westinghouse spraddles the entire field of electrical equipment. At its tremendous East Pittsburgh works it can make anything from waterwheel generators for Boulder Dam to complete power and control apparatus for steel rolling mills. At Derry, Pa. and Emeryville, Calif, it fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes...
These words on a mimeographed sheet passed out last week to White House newshawks were the sole formal announcement of what no one needed to be told. ¶At Norris, Tenn. a siren shrieked, eight sluice gates slipped shut, a lake began to form inch by inch behind the dam. In Washington 500 miles away, Franklin Roosevelt sat with his finger on the siren button, saying, "Norris Dam is a practical symbol of better life. . . ." ¶Two and a half years ago Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman was given the job of working out means by which railroads could...
...free public lecture on "Structural Problems of Boulder Dam" will be given by Harold M. Westergaard, professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce Hall...
Professor Westergaard, a native of Denmark, educated in Denmark and Germany, has been a structural engineer in Denmark, Germany, England, and the United States. He was consulting engineer on Boulder Dam, and has been a special analyst for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and the Engineering Foundation...
...Chinese name. His Mongol name is Dam-chukdangrub...