Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the early part of last week stockholders of Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston were proud of their investment. They knew their company was in a strong position, furnishing electric light and power to a population of 1,280,000 in Boston and 37 neighboring towns. They knew it had recently soared to 440 on the announcement of a four-for-one split...
...commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent electric lamp by Thomas A. Edison, the Harvard Engineering Society will hold a meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock in room 110, Pierce Hall. The main speaker on the program will be G. L. Kennelly, Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was the principal electrical assistant to Edison during the period from 1887 to 1894. Special exhibits and programs telling of Mr. Edison's achievements and their effect upon modern civilization have been arranged...
...will be moderate-an attempt to solve the great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with medicine. His championship of women doctors...
...National Dairy Show at St. Louis. Oct. 21-President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for the celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville Dam. Oct. 25-New $6,000,000 Japanese motorship Asama Marti arrives in San Francisco on maiden voyage...
...President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for the celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville...