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...Thomas Edison once tried magnetic concentration of low-grade iron ore, as Henry Ford discovered in the records of Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory while rebuilding it in his Greenfield Village. So Ford gave this line of research in 1929 as a first assignment to Robert Boyer, who worked off & on at it while developing his famed plastic auto body (TIME...
...reserve generator of New York's Consolidated Edison Co. was bought by Defense Plant Corp. to be shipped from Hellgate to Dow Chemical Co.'s new magnesium plant in Texas...
...Cinemactor Lewis (Judge Hardy) Stone, but the unit has now been absorbed in the State Home Guard. If the regular telephone service is cut off, the Defense Council can employ two shortwave radio channels, a statewide teletype hookup, U.S. Forest Service lines, a private outlet of the Southern California Edison Co., five other wires that are kept secret...
...industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control, it reaffirms Thomas Edison's remark: "Steam power is business; hydro power is politics...
...company President F. Leroy Hill, Governor Charles Edison sent a blistering telegram in which he declared that the trouble "seems to be you. . . . You are angry and tired. These are not the elements out of which grows industrial peace." In so many words the Governor told Mr. Hill that he ought to get out for a time and let somebody else run his plant...