Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around him. They were people like himself, of obscure destiny and unimportant identity, working people, going home to supper. The young man was 20 years old, a clerk by profession, secretary to one Thomas Gibson Bowles, proprietor and editor of Vanity Fair. The article he read told about Thomas Edison...
Sought out by reporters, Samuel Insull will speak of that evening, of the magazine. He adds, in matter-of-fact tone, that it was pure chance that made him answer an advertisement in which one Col. George E. Gourard announced his desire for a secretary. Colonel Gourard represented the Edison interests in London. Samuel Insull was a good secretary. When Mr. Edison needed a secretary, Colonel Gourard recommended him. So began one of the most important combinations in U. S. business...
Samuel Insull came of a poor family. His father ran a temperance hotel near Reading, Eng. Temperance was not popular. Samuel Insull had worked hard all his life, but he had never in his life worked so hard as he now began to work for Thomas Edison. When he landed in Manhattan, he hurried to the home of his new employer. It was five o'clock in the afternoon. "Report for duty after dinner," Mr. .Edison said. Samuel Insull worked until five next morning...
...Thomas Alva Edison has prophesied that traffic strangulation would eventually doom the skyscraper...
...week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them (TIME, March 30, 1925), by which a man 40 miles away can see to read a newspaper. Coincidentally, it was also the 47th anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison's perfection of a 16-candle-power electric lamp...