Word: directionable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1892, 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...
Dwellers in Cincinnati's Millcreek Valley district are well aware of the proximity of Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant?particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper...
The House tariff bill took a long step in the direction of substituting U. S. Valuation for Foreign when it proposed that the President be authorized to shift tariff appraisals from foreign to domestic valuation when conditions warranted. Senate Finance Committee Republicans took their problem with them into executive session...
Carrying objects, and perhaps eventually persons, by means of rockets is an engineering phase of physics in which Professor Goddard, 47, has been experimenting for 17 years. The principle of rocket motion is simple-action and reaction. Escaping gases act in one direction, the rocket body in the opposite. The...
Rockwell Kent, artist, cruising the North with two 22-year-old companions on the 33-ft. sailing yacht Direction, in search of desolate scenes to paint, escaped with them uninjured when the Direction crashed on rocks near Godthaab, Greenland.