Word: cos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
Certain-teed Products Corp. (building materials), and Beaver Board Cos...
...Keith Corp. of the Keith Cos. and Orpheum Circuit Inc. (making a total of 700 theatres...
...before Miss Bori packed her trunks, she did something that would have pleased the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was not easy, for Mozart operas have become so unfashionable that the Metropolitan dismisses him with one performance a season. But Miss Bori was allowed to sing Despina in his Così Fan Tutte ('Tis Thus They All Do). There was no denying that the story of two young men setting out to hoodwink their fiancees into infidelity was faint fodder for great music. Mozart, however, could put anything-a piece of string, a blot of ink-to music...
...party to the next Dail with a comfortable surplus of votes; for his narrow escape has alarmed the conservative business element and has shot Irish politics with a keenness it has lacked since the first Free State elections. At present everything points to a big victory for Mr. Cos- grave...