Word: waters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason for the need...
...Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson got up a National Defense Power Committee on which the New Deal's very power-minded Corcoran-Cohen organization was also represented. Mr. Johnson rounded up the topflight utility bosses (one of whom, white-mustached, aristocratic Hobart Porter of American Water Works, once used him as a Washington lawyer), got them to pledge to invest up to $1,000,000,000 a year on war emergency plant in 1939 and 1940. One power executive remarked: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Less than $500,000,000 was actually spent...
Ninotchka (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) reveals the moral, political and sartorial bankruptcy that ensues when a female Bolshevik is exposed to the bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...
...their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
...advocates three free physical examinations a year, safe drinking water, sanitary washing facilities, and proper ventilation and temperature control. Some of the schools are in "a disgraceful condition," according to Carr...