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...yield of 4.35%. Moreover, when two syndicates that had been supporting the AA-rated issues of Illinois Power Co. and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. withdrew their support, the bonds immediately dropped a point or two, and still had trouble finding buyers. Halsey, Stuart & Co., with a $50 million Consolidated Edison issue, was also in trouble, but it extended its underwriting pact in hopes of getting out of its commitment at a better price in the next few weeks...
...Vikings was, as the New York Times phrased it, just another "Norse opera." In fact, it is one of the bloodier bores of the season, and the only good things to be said for it are that the scenery is nice, and the book, a 1951 breastseller by Edison Marshall, was worse...
Physicist DuBridge should have been around to discourage Edison. Then we wouldn't have disk jockeys. If he could have told Columbus that a round world was loose talk, we wouldn't have California. Heaven knows what we'll get from Mars or the moon...
...threw in the sponge. To dealers and distributors went a letter canceling Fair Trade contracts on the company's prices. Said G.E.: "We have abandoned our policy because we have found it inoperable." Within three days, half a dozen other diehard Fair Traders, including Sunbeam Corp., McGraw-Edison Co. (Toastmaster), Ronson Corp., and Schick Inc., followed G.E.'s lead, dealing the hardest blow yet to the list price as a factor in U.S. retailing...
...know, you have produced the first successful helicopter." This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...