Word: edisonizing
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...accidental byproduct of George Westinghouse's development (1885) of alternating current. The Edison Co., which sold direct current, tried to dramatize A.C.'s dangers by using it to kill stray cats and dogs. Impressed, the New York legislature adapted A.C. for killing humans in a 2,000-volt electric chair at Sing Sing Prison...
...Federal Power Commission today in Washington licensed the Consolidated Edison Company to construct a hydroelectric project on the Hudson River that would flood approximately 70 acres of Harvard's Black Rock Forest...
...patriarch of Florida's 1,500 surviving Seminole Indians, whose stories of the old warrior days and Everglade hunter's skill (nine deer in a single day) made him both a prime source for historians and a favorite guide for such sportsmen as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison; on the reservation near Brighton...
Private Success. In a development that is especially galling to ENEL's managers, the dispossessed power companies are using their compensation to invest in profitable new private enterprises. Edison, whose corporate shell was left in private hands after nationalization, is now a leader in chemicals, computers and farm equipment. Adriatic Electric has merged with huge and powerful Montecatini. Even the state-owned IRI Finelettrica-which managed to get "nationalized" by being swallowed up by ENEL-has shifted its investments into steel and a nationwide telephone system, is now channeling compensation money into new industrial development in southern Italy...
Testifying before the five-man commission were representatives of several groups opposed to the project; an FPC examiner who recommended last April that the project be approved; and the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, which is seeking a license from the commission...