Word: carbone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week from Harvard University, which announced receipt of a gift of $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants convert solar energy into stores of energy available to man. Donor was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston's blueblooded 76-year-old carbon black manufacturer who graduated from Harvard in 1882, magna cum laude. In memory of his late wife Mr. Cabot designated his gift the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research...
...Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
...passing I wish to say that I saw no other written record of the whole transaction except the fee bill which I enclose. There was no carbon on the pad from which this was torn. I do not say that a record was not made later but I DO say that the whole mess stinks to the high heavens as a petty chiselling graft, taking advantage of men who cannot afford to pay such fines. Not so petty at that if you figure a dozen or so commercial out-of-State travellers per day. This estimate is not high...
...Like Sears and Ward in that it sells more products than any one person can name is big Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (gases & organic chemicals, metals & alloys, batteries). Like Sears and Ward, Carbide made more money in 1936 than in any other of its 19 years of corporate existence. Net profits were $36,852,000, a 35% increase over 1935. Noting that prosperity was in Carbide's every pore, President Jesse Jay Ricks last week wrote to 55,705 stockholders: "The quantity of oxygen sold in 1936 exceeded that of any previous year. . . . More motorists bought 'Eveready Prestone...
...Bronchial pneumonia results from inflammation of the bronchi and bronchioles. It is less dangerous than lobar pneumonia which clogs the lobules and prevents carbon dioxide from getting out of the blood, oxygen from getting...