Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such quotations as 238 for U. S. Steel, 395 for General Electric, 349 for Detroit Edison. In September Shenandoah had announced an intensive selling campaign by which Shenandoah and Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. shares would be sold to small investors. Yet potent and prosperous appeared, last summer, both Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Their securities and the securities in their portfolios* were rising harmoniously together. Back...
...Besides large holdings in Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Central States Electric and Blue Ridge, Chief Shenandoah investments last fall included: American Tel. & Tel., Commercial Investment Trust, Consolidated Gas of Baltimore, Electric Investors (now merged with Electric Bond & Share), Hydro-Electric Securities Co., Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric , Pacific Lighting, North American...
Thomas Alva Edison in a fringed muffler, Mrs. Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
...Alex Dow President of the Detroit Edison Company and a Past President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will address the Harvard Engineering Society on Friday...
...Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., Harry B. Gear of Commonwealth Edison Co., Charles Revell Holden of the Union Trust Co., Robert L. Scott of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (department store), Albert W. Sherer of Lord & Thomas and Logan (advertising agents), John Stuart of Quaker Oats Co. (Chairman of Princeton's trustees...