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Eyeing the Senate's work from the far wing of the Capital, House leaders shook their heads. They thought it unwise to load down U. S. taxpayers any further- especially in an election year. Unless President Roosevelt demands more taxes they intimated that the House might exercise its right of being obstinate in conference...
...session, and the mob came back, 6,000 strong-strong also in convictions, for the Northwest has a considerable floating labor population, a type always more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks, stones and bottles took...
Hour after hour like a well-drilled football team the ladlemen dipped and poured load after load. The completed mirror was to weigh 20 tons: that meant 100 trips. To a balcony commanding the scene 50 spectators at a time were admitted, quickly shooed away to make room for 50 more. Mingling with newshawks on three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees...
...button is marked "Present," the second "Yes," the third "No." Each button closes a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance, thus consuming a measured amount of electric current. In the power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current in use and charts the daily peak loads, is a Hopkins wattmeter on which the recording chart is driven 96 times faster than standard. A few inches of this fast chart are required to record the drain on the power house for only 30 seconds. If the 30 seconds are taken when the station load is fairly steady...
...make bidding "really competitive," only speed, useful load capacity and safety factors and devices should be considered in equipment specifications...