Word: bonbright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Lee Loomis, banker (Bonbright & Co.), electro-physicist (effects of high frequency sound waves) had as guest at his splendid private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
...Bonbright Continental National...
...other directors had agreed to sell out to the American Power & Light Co., for the equivalent of $166 a share. That is, they were trading each of their Montana Power shares for two shares of a new issue which the American Power & Light was issuing; and a banking-syndicate (Bonbright & Co., White, Weld & Co. and National City Co.) was willing to pay $83 for each of those new American Power & Light shares. Mr. Ryan, in Manhattan last week, recommended that other Montana Power shareholders make the trade. They as a group would be getting somewhat more than...
...vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds," too shrill for human audibility. The "super-sounds" kill fish, paralyze mice, sterilize blood...
...Italy (the U. S. last year supplied 627 kilowatts per person) and not enough. The Italian plants can expand to the great profit of the whole country. Such were points behind the incorporation in Delaware last week of the $33,000,000 Italian Superpower Corporation. With funds acquired through Bonbright & Co., Field, Glore & Co., and the Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co. (all of Manhattan) and under the presidency of Landon K. Thorne (president of Bonbright & Co. and of United Utilities Co. and director in half a dozen other U. S. public utilities), Italian Superpower Corp. is to supply money...