Corn-Husking Is Headline News In United States Today
Next to the annual automobile speed classic at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, cornhusking contests have drawn the largest single day crowds in the United States. The record is 150,000 persons, who came in more-'han 5G,000 automobiles, for the national cornhusking championship in 1940. The American Iron and Steel Institute reports that in a single average day, the steel industry in the United States uses enough water to supply a city four and one-half times the size of New York City, enough electricity to supply 17.000.OGO homes, and enough natural gas to meet the requirements of more than 14,000,000 American families. Two United States firms —the General Electric Company and the American Locomotive Company—have built the first gas turbine-electric powered locomotive to be operated in the country. It weighs 500,000 pounds and has 4,500 horse-power. It can pull a train of 85 loaded freight cars at 65 miles an hour.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 55, 26 October 1949, Page 8
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