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...went last week an exhaustive annual report accompanied by an elaborate 40-page booklet prepared in connection with the company's soth anniversary celebration. Westinghouse, Past, Present and Future paid long and deserved homage to Founder George Westinghouse, the prolific Yankee genius who invented the railroad air brake before he was 23, later pioneered in electrical equipment.* Conspicuously missing from the commemorative booklet was the fact that George Westinghouse was ousted from his own company seven years before he died in 1914 at the age of 67. His company's failure during the Panic of 1907 constituted...
...Only corporate connection between Westinghouse Electric and Westinghouse Air Brake is their common founder...
...Braking reaction is measured by noting the interval between the flashing of a red light and the moment when the brake pedal in a model car, operated by the subject, is completely pushed down. "Contrary to the popular supposition", stated Dr. de Silva, "the braking time of the average person after taking a drink of gin is faster, not slower, than normally. Of course, the general efficiency of the driver is lowered, and his coordination is not so good, but in this one case the body reaction is speeded...
...last week American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. advertised the fact of which U. S. railroads have lately been most proud: Not one passenger lost his life as the result of a train accident...
Having cut reserves by one or both of these means, Chairman Eccles could then apply the final brake-upping of the rediscount rate. At present this action would be ineffectual, for banks do not need to borrow from the Reserve. The weakest link in this brake chain is the fact that selling of the Reserve's Government bonds would be flatly contrary to Treasury policy so long as there are huge budget deficits to be financed...