Word: alva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen gave their support to the New Deal earlier or more enthusiastically than Charles Edison, head of Thomas A. Edison, Industries: the fair-sized electrical apparatus business that the Edisons salvaged from the late great Thomas Alva's historic inventions. The Roosevelt Administration was not a month old when President Edison, whose politics were previously recorded as Republican, plastered the walls of the Edison plant in West Orange, N. J. with a message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party...
Graduation has taken a heavy toll of the bright lights of last year's team, with only two veterans, Alva Sulloway '38, and Captain Richard M. Dorson '37 back this winter. Ace polletman Glidden will be a great loss, and Cowles is depending on many of last year's winning Freshman team to fill in the gaps. Coming up from these ranks will be George B. Blake '39, Francis H. Appleton 3rd '39, Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Jr. '39 and James English...
Died. Frederick P. Ott, 76, for 52 years aide to the late Thomas Alva Edison; in West Orange, N. J. He collaborated in inventing the electric light, used snuff for sneezes recorded on the first motion picture film...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...
...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...