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...price compares to $495,000, the high for a seat after deducting "rights" last year. Elected to the Exchange last week was John Francis Murray, son of the late Inventor Thomas Edward Murray, said to have obtained more patents than any other inventor except Thomas Alva Edison (TIME, May 25, 1925; March 17). Son Murray, a member of the Port of New York Authority, was long connected with Murray Radiator Co., sold recently to American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp...
...late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed by publicity for Thomas Alva Edison, was one of the . main generators of the Electrical...
...Republican senatorial candidate, William Van Derveer Hodges, then endorsed him, reputedly a personal Wet. To Senatorial Nominee George Hamlin Shaw no stock was sold, no endorsement given (TIME, Sept. 8, Sept. 22). Other endorsed stockbuyers: Democratic Senatorial Nominee Edward Prentice Costigan, Governor William H. Adams, onetime Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, two district attorneys...
...Prestcoke Corp. of Chicago formally opened its first plant. In at one end went bituminous coal, out at the other came shiny briquets, while coal dealers and the Press watched and listened to the high hopes of the promoters: Clarence S. Lomax, inventor; Charles Edison Poyer, grandnephew of Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Hitchcock Jr., international polo captain. The infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove to be the tonic so badly...
...monarch in his way, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison can also indulge his propensity for asking trick questions, rewarding him who gives the wisest answers. Nine years ago he compiled for his prospective employes a list of puzzlers which provided table talk in U. S. homes for weeks afterward. Last year he gathered 49 handpicked boys just graduated from their high schools, offered a prize of expenses and tuition to any college for four years to the one who did best in an examination he submitted to them (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). Last week 49 more boys journeyed to West Orange...