Word: edisonizing
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...have been denied a comprehensive accounting of this legacy; as soon as one new Rachmaninoff album was issued, another seemed to be deleted from the catalogue. Rachmaninoff's first discs, eight recital pieces by Chopin, Mozart, Scarlatti, Liszt and himself that were recorded acoustically in 1919 for the Edison Co., have not been available since the mid-1920s...
...plants, factories and ships. The little-known New England Petroleum Corp. (Nepco), which owns 65% of Borco (Standard Oil Co. of California owns the rest), is a leading supplier of residual oil and other petroleum products to electric utilities in the Northeast, including New York City's Con Edison. The company also owns a string of 250 gas stations in Eastern Canada, operates wells in Abu Dhabi and Texas, and claims to have posted 1972 sales of $1 billion. Nepco President Edward M. Carey founded the company 38 years ago and remains sole owner...
...some other power companies are less than exemplary. Chicago's Commonwealth Edison has adopted a "We trust them" attitude toward industrial customers, which account for about two-thirds of its sales, while distributing 140,000 booklets called 101 Ways to Conserve Electricity at Home...
...people in Mass Hall must have breathed a sigh of relief. For almost two years environmentalists had been asking Harvard to voice opposition to a power plant proposed by Consolidated Edison for Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., and for two years the University had been avoiding the move...
...environmentalists' reasoning in approaching the University was simple: Harvard is a prestigious institution, one not easily bullied even by a utility giant such as Consolidated Edison. Harvard owns 300 acres of land crucial to the project. And if Harvard were to announce its opposition and a steadfast refusal to sell, Con Ed might just pack up and go home...