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Elected. William M. Jardine, onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture; to be board chairman of Investment Corp. of North America, succeeding the late Lyman B. Kendall...
...vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest in the U. S. devoted exclusively to the manufacture of airplanes. His transport systems are the largest in the world. Systems and factories were recently bought into United Aircraft & Air Transport Corp. Mr. Boeing is chairman of that corporation...
...observed experiments and progress in Switzerland. He formed an International Niagara Commission, with Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow for chairman, to act as judges in a prize competition for the design of the Niagara generators. From the first, the Commission advised against Alternating Current, but the man who designed the prize-winning generator, a Scottish professor named George Forbes, joined Mr. Adams in the belief that Alternating would prove feasible...
...cynics, they recalled that the late great blind Joseph Pulitzer was called, in the '90s, "Father of Yellow Journalism.'"* More light on the award for 1928 was shed last week by Dr. Richard Eugene Burton, Chairman of the Award Committee...
William Marion Jardine of Washington & Kansas, onetime Secretary of Agriculture, was last week elected board chairman of Investment Corp. of North America, succeeding the late Lyman B. Kendall...