Word: pers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to the referendum Gottlieb stated that he had already been offered $300 to help with the expense of the referendum. Ten per cent of the chapters or ten per cent of the membership of 7,000 must sign the petition asking for a referendum if it is to be carried...
...same river with its titanic 1,890,000 kilowatts to come, the looming question in the Northwest has been: Who will buy the power? Enterprising, efficient private utilities already had developed home consumption of electricity in Oregon to a point nearly twice the national average (760 kw-h per customer). Clearly the one answer was to get new industries to open shop within transmission distance of the dams...
...port charges on their idle ships and upkeep of their idle crews. Allied shipping quarters last week estimated that Germany still had tied up throughout the world, 400 to 500 ships, with some 1,800,000 tons of needed car goes, which were running up charges at ?330,000 per month for harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi ship after another has left sanctuary and tried running the Allied blockade to get home. Rule No. 1 of Germany's sea war being...
Plywood is made by putting a big log into a peeling machine, which strips off the thin wood sheets like wrapping paper from a roll. When the sheets are cut to size, the sandwiches are made in presses which deliver squeezes up to 200 Ib. per sq. in. The San Francisco World's Fair, which accounted for 10,000,000 sq. ft. of fir plywood, used plywood 29 layers thick for parts of its Colonnade of States...
...never finished out of the money in any golf tournament he entered in 1939. Last week Texan Nelson received the Harry Vardon Trophy, awarded annually (on a stroke basis) to the No. 1 professional golfer of the year. In 24 tournaments (75 18-hole rounds) he averaged 70.84 strokes per round...