Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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A. F. of L. electrical workers picketed the Triangle Conduit & Cable Co. in Flushing, L. I., then President John McAuliffe's house, then his country club.
Construction has a prodigal stepson for which a real feast is spread about once a generation, usually combined with war: shipbuilding. And 1940 was its festal year. For Admiral Stark's two-ocean Navy, shipyards launched a naval vessel every twelve days; few were the Washington glamor girls who...
Like earlier New Deal years, 1940 was good for operating utilities, tough for utility holding companies. SEC forced Howard Hopson's weird Associated Gas & Electric into receivership, and watched sick Howard Hopson tremble and snore the year out in a criminal court. In St. Louis, it surprised North American...
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The sellers of electricity, despite their owners' troubles, had another record year. Total kilowatt-hour sales were 11% over 1939; industrial sales were up 16½%, rising weekly. The industry spent more money on new capacity ($580,000,000) than in any year since 1930 ($919,000,000), increasing...