Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge in Thomas Alva Edison's scholarship contest...
Thomas Alva Edison said last week: ''Without great improvements people will tire of talkies. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in the silent pictures...
Died. Thomas E. Murray, 69, of Brooklyn, inventor (1,100 U. S. patents, second only to Thomas Alva Edison) and electrical utility expert (for many years in charge of all Edison companies in New York City); in Southampton...
...directorate of the Association includes such names as Quincy Bent, vice president of Bethlehem Steel, Lawrence Aloysius Downs, President of Illinois Central, and Matthew Scott Sloan, president of New York Edison. Actual standardizing activities, however, will be carried on along the original engineering lines. The Association also announced a close contact with the U. S. Bureau of Standards, one of its directors being George Kimball Burgess, the Bureau of Standards head...
...That it had acquired more than 90% of the common stock of Commonwealth Power Corp., Penn-Ohio Edison and Southeastern Power & Light, operating in eleven States, with total assets of over a billion dollars...