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...power plant. Resulting Berkshire Power Co. was sold at a profit to Hartford Electric Light Co. During 1901-10 Lawyer Roraback lobbied for the New Haven Railroad at Hartford, earned $5,000 a session, learned legislative wiles so well that in 1905 he gained for his own account a hydro-electric charter to harness the Rocky River. Twelve years later he sold this for $75,000, emerged as president of potent Connecticut Light & Power...
...culture of plants. He had first favored the word "aquaculture," but a colleague pointed out that this term already designates the culture of aquatic plants and marine animals. The problem was solved by another Berkeley colleague, longtime Botany Professor William Albert Setchell. At his suggestion Dr. Gericke put together hydro from the Greek for water, and ponos, labor. He likes the word because it has "a strong economic and utilitarian connotation'' and also because of its kinship to "geoponics," the common medieval term for agriculture...
...England Power Association is controlled by International Hydro-Electric Co., the utilities affiliate of International Paper & Power Co., while New England Gas & Electric Association is an affiliate of Associated Gas & Electric...
...them to hand over to the liquidating trustees in Boston a check for $500,000 as 10% payment on an agreed price of $5,000,000. In addition to its first $100,000, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire promised to pay Amoskeag Industries $2,250,000 for the hydro-electric power plant which had driven Amoskeag looms and spindles. Cautiously said Amoskeag Industries' President Moreau: "Maybe by winter some industry will be located in the plant...
...which has been demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," Donald Wills Douglas was an Annapolis midshipman who spent much of his time throwing model airplanes out his dormitory window. In 1912, when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville...