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ONE OF A DOZEN HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS OWNED BY THE COMPANY WHICH IS TRYING TO STRANGLE PASADENA'S SMALL PLANT cut its rate from twelve and a half to eight cents . In due time the city , seeing its business and receipts mount ...
ONE OF A DOZEN HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS OWNED BY THE COMPANY WHICH IS TRYING TO STRANGLE PASADENA'S SMALL PLANT cut its rate from twelve and a half to eight cents . In due time the city , seeing its business and receipts mount ...
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light is blazing , but that eighty out of every hundred horsepower in the plants lie idle and unproductive twenty hours ... of the plant must be at least equal to the greatest load it may be asked to carry for short periods of time .
light is blazing , but that eighty out of every hundred horsepower in the plants lie idle and unproductive twenty hours ... of the plant must be at least equal to the greatest load it may be asked to carry for short periods of time .
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For sixteen hours a day the plant rarely sells more than four hundred horsepower . Fierce competition with the private corporation has raised the municipal plant's expenses beyond the normal , yet it is paying interest on the entire ...
For sixteen hours a day the plant rarely sells more than four hundred horsepower . Fierce competition with the private corporation has raised the municipal plant's expenses beyond the normal , yet it is paying interest on the entire ...
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