Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...
Bond & Share Family. Reports said that potent Electric Bond & Share Co., which lately voted shareholders rights to subscribe to some $66,000,000 of new stock, planned to form a billion-dollar company to hold stocks of Electric Power & Light, National Power & Light, American Power & Light, American & Foreign Power, American Superpower, American & Foreign Power, though a Bond & Share company, has little community of interest with the other rumorees, carries on only abroad. Superpower, a Bonbright & Co., child, does extraordinarily well as it is. The other three rumorees, however, are direct, lineal descendants in the Bond & Share genealogy of holding companies...
...Cleveland steelman and banker, had purchased working control of United Light & Power Co., midwestern utility with $500,000,000 assets and 1928 gross earnings of $89,000,000. The report was that the Eaton purchase was from the Koppers-Mellon interests. Reports also mentioned the Insull, Bonbright and North American Power & Light interests as United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor stirred up another, older rumor-merger of Inland Steel Co. (Chicago...
Gary Phone. Supreme in the U. S. telephone field is Bell, subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph. Supreme among independent phone companies became the Theodore Gary interests of Kansas City, which last week bought control of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. of St. Paul, Dakota Central Telephone Co. of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and eight other companies. Tri-State operates about 165,000 telephones, earns some $1,200,000 per annum, is valued at between...
...Corp. was formed, it was organized solely for the purpose of transmitting wireless messages. At that time Great Britain, long dominant in cable communication, was also the outstanding leader in wireless. World's greatest wireless company was British Marconi (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.) which controlled American Marconi (Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America), leading U. S. wireless concern. British Marconi was attempting to buy from General Electric Co. exclusive rights in the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which first made long-distance radio communication possible. From the Inter-Allied Conference on Radio at Paris to Manhattan went...