Word: brill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, 71, much-publicized country surgeon who performed upon himself an appendectomy, a herniotomy (TIME, Jan. 18); of pneumonia; in Kane, Pa. Died. Samuel M. Curwen, 73, president of J. G. Brill Co. (trolley cars), director of many a potent U. S. corporation; of a general breakdown; in Haverford, Pa. Died. William Thompson Graham, 81, a founder (with the late Daniel G. Reid. "Tin Plate King'') and onetime president of American Can Co.; of pneumonia after long illness; in Manhattan...
...same hospital by the same procedure surgeons removed a tack from a lung of Fred Brill...
...gravity is low for safety. Tests showed the streamline construction would afford a power reduction of 17% at 20 m.p.h., 42½% at 90 m.p.h. It was designed by President Thomas Conway Jr. of Philadelphia & Western; Felix Pawlowski, Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at the University of Michigan; and Brill Co. experts. President Conway, meeting competition by Pennsylvania R. R. and Reading Co., expects to beat their time of 36 min. from Norristown to the heart of Philadelphia. He is chairman of a committee of electric railway officials which is spending half a million dollars on research to make electric cars...
...interurban car, claimed to be the fastest electric car ever built for commuter service and more modern in design than the most modern bus, made trial runs at Philadelphia last week. It was built by J. G. Brill Co. for Philadelphia & Western Railway and is the first of ten such cars which will run between Philadelphia's 69th Street station and Norristown at an average speed of 52½ m.p.h., including stops. It seats 52 passengers, costs...
...This Brill. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill's characterization of Abraham Lincoln as a schizoid-manic personality (TIME, June 15) must be painful to teachers who hold Lincoln as a model for their pupils. "But who is this Dr. Brill?* Teachers have never before heard of him. What do other psychiatrists say? . . . Teachers, before accepting his conclusions, would want to see an analysis of the doctor's own mentality." (James William Crabtree, secretary of the Association...