Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...league utilitarian, heard from last week, is George Tidd, who runs the $523,000,000 American Gas and Electric system, in nine States from the Tennessee Valley to Lake Michigan. American Gas was put together in 1907 by Harrison Williams of North American Co., and Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, now retired, formerly head of Electric Bond & Share, which owns 19% of American Gas common. Tidd is an operating man who once indicated to a Washington investigation that a great deal of the finance in his own power system was over his head. Nevertheless, in 1933 he showed what he thought...
...Last week, George Tidd did a lot of talking for a strong, silent man. He spoke at a special stockholders' meeting to get approval of a $30,000,000 construction program, 15% more than in 1939 (including 80,000 kilowatts of new generating capacity at Philo, Ohio, 25,000 at Atlantic City...
...laying out of the body was done by FDIC, local banks and young Jack Bell, newly appointed Pennsylvania State Banking Secretary. Last week they invited the public in to see the damage...
...Shasta Indians never enjoyed a war fully unless they had first smeared their faces with reddish cinnabar (mercury sulfide), which they got from a big deposit in northern California. Last week it appeared that California's mercury mines, and smaller mines in Oregon, Texas, Arkansas, may soon be furnishing European braves with mercury for war: for antifouling paint for battleship bottoms, photographs, batteries, medicine, and especially for mercury fulminate detonators...
...expectation that a war under way would use even more mercury than an arms race, mercury dealers pushed up the price in September to a 20-year high of $165 a flask (wrought-iron bottle containing 76 Ibs.), up from $84 prewar. Last week's average was only $5 under the best week in September. Marginal producers on the West Coast paid more attention to the second thought than the first, began to reopen long-idle mines...