Word: phasing
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...they are other people's ideas. They are secondhand. I want some experience to confirm them or else to get a new set of my own. It will probably be some time before I go in for politics. In the meantime I should like to study every phase of life, and I think that can best be done as a reporter...
...which the waters of Niagara Falls were first harnessed; the high tension system of power transmission; the synchronous converter employed on New York City subways for converting alternating to direct current; the generating equipment for the first big railway electrification (on the N. Y., N. H. & H.); the single-phase alternating current; the single reduction-gear streetcar motor, which, although designed in 1890, is the type still used. His conception of the single-phase alternating-current railway system, now in universal use, is declared to have revolutionized the industry. The 62,500-kilowatt generator which he recently designed was larger...
This tendency toward new models is only a phase of the severe competition in the business. One company announces a novel appliance or feature. If it gains public favor, all the other companies hasten to adopt it too. Once a new model is finished and on the market, each concern starts planning feverishly on its next model. Hence, the industry as a whole is very "spotty"; while one large Detroit company has virtually shut down, another is planning for greatly increased production...
...contributions which we think worth while investigating, whether from a political committee, a volunteer committee or from individuals, we shall make a thorough inquiry. This will apply to all organizations, including churches if they utilize money for campaign purposes, as well as to those who are interested in any phase of the Prohibition question...
...Senate passed its first important piece of railroad legislation-the Gooding long and short haul bill. The bill has to do with a phase of railroad rate-making usually referred to by the words "Charge whatever the traffic will bear." This does not necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist...