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...same week that "G.E.'s" directors went cruising, directors of Brunswick- Balke-Collender Co. elected Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson) to their board. This was not done because they pined for entertainment to alleviate the tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling his records, but mainly for the knowledge of the amusement line and the shrewd sense of business that Singer Jolson has shown. For contrary to the belief that all actors end in an Actors' Home, he has prospered financially and his operations in Warner Bros. (Vitaphone...
...Brunswick, N. J. 500 General Cigar Co. workers...
From radio the expansion into the phonograph business was logical inasmuch as the old-style phonograph, failing to compete with radio sets, went, in for electric reproduction and also for combination radio-phonographs. Radio Corp. entered the phonograph field by supplying Brunswick-Balke-Collender and later Victor Talking Machine with the radio and the electric drive for their combination machines. Last winter Radio and Victor directors agreed on Radio's absorption of Victor. Radio-Victor Corp. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Radio Corp...
...experiment several methods work successfully to produce electricity other than by fuel or waterfall. Rising and falling tides contain huge power; hence a project is under way for dams and spillways where Maine and New Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay. The sun pours billions of heat units upon the earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than...
...Best known Canadian institutions are the Universities - Toronto, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Ottawa, McGill, Queen's, Trinity, Victoria, Laval, Dalhousie. † Approximately 200 U. S. magazines and 30 newspapers are sold regularly in Canada. For U. S. magazines Canada spends some $15,000,000 yearly; for British magazines, some...