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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...impotent is the Federal Power Commission, set up in 1920, as an orphan agency to control billions of dollars worth of U. S. water power rights. Its job is to license power companies to construct plants along navigable streams, to check their investments, to regulate interstate power rates, to maintain govern-ment options to buy back licensed plants after 50 years. The nominal commissioners are the Secretaries of War, Interior & Agriculture. They sit about five hours a year. The actual work of the commission is carried on by Frank E. Bonner, its secretary, Charles A. Russell, its solicitor, and William...
Commander Evangeline Booth declaring at Manhattan: "The Salvation Army takes no part in politics and expresses no opinion on the economics of capitalism, communism or any other social system. But we declare in the most explicit terms that ... it is impossible to found or to maintain a civilization where the authority and even the existence of the Deity is denied by the State...
...expected that Captain Nathaniel Warner '30 will maintain his undefeated record in the unlimited class, while J. F. Solano '30 in the 165-pound class who has totalled seven falls our of seven bouts and C. D. Newhart '31 in the 175-pound position with four falls and two decision victories out of six bouts are the predicted mainstays of the team...
...merger was announced, with just one hitch. The hitch was that both companies are fragments of the old "Standard Oil Trust," and strong will be the belief that what the Supreme Court has rent asunder no man may dare put together. To argue against this, the companies will maintain, when the government brings a trial injunction, that after the dissolution the Standard Oil companies were to pursue whatever lawful courses they chose, and that this course is distinctly lawful, for Vacuum and Standard of New York are noncompetitive. In the U. S., Vacuum concentrates on lubricating oil (Gargoyle, Mobil...
Warm blooded animals accommodate themselves efficiently to changes in temperature. They are continually manufacturing heat themselves and getting rid of it. Thus they maintain normal temperatures. The smaller the animal the higher is likely to be its body temperature. Temperature of a mouse is 105.8°, rabbit 102.0°, dog 100.0° to 102.0°, man 98.6°, horse 96.8° to 98.6°. Children are about one degree warmer than adults...