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SPEAKING OF POWER In publishing, odd things keep pop* ping up, like the business-reply card Irom one ol our Readers Service pages (similar to page 176A in this issue) which recently came (n from Italy. !o proper form, the writer requested man* ufacturers' -literature reviewed in the same issue. All very normal except for the date--'the card was Iron the July 1939 Issue! . We'd give a lot to know how many hands that copy of Power passed through and where it went during the tempestuoua years in Italy tince 1939. We'll never team, but of course we're honoring the card--assembling for the writer current literature similar to that reviewed in that issue of long ago. ** Speaking of turbines, the backlog of orders on industrial units (7500 kw and under) fa beginning to disappear while the orders (or central-station anils continue to pile up- If you're thinking of expanding or modernising Industrialpower facilities, don't let the published and quoted deliveries on the big units discourage you--tho time's ns good as It is ever Ukely to be to put an industrial-turbine order on the books. it -k THE CHECKER Ob the ChecJra/s l/e is the (i/e far me, Unrestricted and fall and fret. Feu are my (oofs and brief my creed, One red pencil it all l need. One big pencil and one fond dream. To driot that drefuman off the beam. Thit is my method, end this I do: Find one error, then foliato through. Our good friend E A Roberts writes from Carlsbad, New Mexico, to tell of one Oscar Dubuque, who operated a smalt 300-kw hydro plant for tho city. About ]00 yards from the plant and six miles from town, Oscar lived with a cow, some chickens, and a little gar den for which he had all the irrigation water he wanted. The plant just about ran Itself, and in the doorway, tipped back in a chair, sat Oscar. Right at his aide he kepi a 30*40 Krag rifle. It was sort of company and could be used to keep, off stray coyotes, hawks or drunken cowboys. One night just before dusk when the load was building up, a big hawk sailed into the chicken yard and picked out e (at pullet that dawdled outside. The hawk flew over to a pole about two spans from the plant and settled on the crossarm to eat. That line was -built of four bare wires three 12,470-volt phase lines and a grounded neutral for 4-wire 7200-volt service. Mad as oil get out, Oscar grabbed his Krag and shot quickly. All would have been well if ha hadn't been a good shot; a leaser marksman would have missed the whole works. Heading dead for the hawk, the bullet cut the neutral, the heavy wite whipped back in an are that touched all wires, and the hawk took off in what looked like a photogra pher's flashlight, scared, but etUl hun gry. Oscar wasn't exactly what you'd call scared--he was petrified. Juice off, phone and transmission lines burned down, sad no help near. It turned out to be quite a job of fixing, and a lot of linemen as well as tha hawk were hungry late that night Find an arrowhead out of plate. Add a rivet and change the space. (Vote, lest the Field misunderstand, Make the assembly opposite hand. Doable the scale 1} the dtttdTs email. Let* be thorough and change U ail. ' Uninhibited, wild end /re#-- The Checker's life is the life far me. These are the dayt of blood end steel. But in my heart is a high ideal. This is my u/rimole aim end goal For which I freely would pledge my touL Some rime, somewhere may 'the chance be mine. To change the border end center line. To check oil day, and along toward night Return a print that has NOTHING right! --R S Clark Through tha changing fortunes of war and peace, Americans have always fell a worm spot in their hearts for the Finns--distinguished by their determi nation to pay their just debts of World War I and by their equally determined efforts to pay indemnities of World War II and to reconstruct their na tion. These demands on industrial ac tivity have created unprecedented needs for graduate engineers and archi tects--needs which the .country's sole institute of technology (TekniUinen Korkeatou) is struggling to fulfill. During the war. President Marlti Levon writes, the institute was twice sevtiely bombed. The second bo&SI completely destroyed the obout 80,000 volumes: Tfoou|fflU chases and donations about 40,000^' umes have been restored, but of securing foreign funds make act lion of technical liletnture and pen^ cals extremely difficult. Dr A t gon. of the American Friends Ser^ Committee, is helping to call this J^ to the attention of engineers ia't, country. If you have technical books9 magazines you can spate, mirk for the Institute of Technology, sink), end send them to the of Finland, 2144 Wyoming Ave, Washington, D. C. Dr K T JutiU;' Finnish Minister, will arrange for : ping to Finland. What will undoubtedly be the firm gas turbine to operate on a U. $. utility system has been ordered from Genera! Electric by Oklahoma Gas and Electrh' Co for installation in its Huey Station s^ Oklahoma City. Expected'te be la o'p^ eration by the summer of 1949, thkr 4000-kw 6700-rpm gas-fired unit (p 95)1 will drive a 3600-rpm generator feeding the transmission system. Heat io tbs4 turbine exheust gaa will be recovered to supplement existing feedwater-bestlog facilities, increasing net output i the station's steam turbines. Tbe com bined effect will be to increase tbe net] capacity of the station by about to 7000 kw, depending on ambient air] temperature. THIS MONTH'S COVER To those who think of water n something to drink, or perhaps to wash In, Its Importance os eoslIng medium is herd to reslits. Somewhere back in the dim pest an inquiring sou] tumbled to tbe feet that a given amount of water would do many times as much cool ing work If stlowed to enponia. Modern cooling towere, such as theso giants at Roppcrta Brewery In New York, apply the evapora tive cooling principle with high effectiveness, conserve water and, since water always costs something, If only pumping charges, save money. By tbe way, that dramatic diesel on the April eover wot the work of Theodore Van Corp, McGraw-Hill crtict previously mentioned i0 "This Month's Cover* for February. 94' (294) POWER I*"'