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Nevertheless, at least a quarter-billion of corporate refunding is shortly expected. Southern California Edison is about to float $73,000,000 of 4% bonds-biggest issue ever registered. Union Oil has filed a $13,500,000 offering. And last week big corporations like American Rolling Mills, California Packing, Virginia Electric & Power, Pennsylvania R. R., Commonwealth Edison, Armour & Co. and Texas Corp. were all reported to be considering financing ranging in amounts...
...brilliant guy, very mechanical, he was, and once he has a job with Thomas A. Edison working on phonographs. When he up and left my mother he always acted like a gentleman and told her where he was and sends her some money sometimes. We comes from good stock, Yankee Americans, we are, away back, and I know we got a minister in the family somewheres...
President of the Manhattan local is Rev. Dr. David M. Cory, Brooklyn Presbyterian who won his labor spurs and a mauling by police when he picketed the Brooklyn Edison Co. two years ago. Vice President is Rev. William Lloyd Imes, Negro pastor of Harlem's St. James Presbyterian Church. Others of the 75 union members: Rabbis Israel Goldstein, Alexander Lyons and Sidney Goldstein; Dean Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Rev. Cameron P. Hall; Methodist Rev. F. Theodore Minor. Least parochial to carry a union card is Rev. James Myers, able researcher, idealistic unionizer, industrial secretary...
...they were not valid. Reason: lack of "novelty and invention." The practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel on his phonograph...
Last week Mount Wilson's big mirror got its first coat of aluminum, a film .00001 in. thick. The method of application was developed by Dr. John Donovan Strong and others from a plating process first hit upon by Thomas Edison. The glass disk is first thoroughly cleaned with blasts of electrons. It is then placed in a big sealed tank from which pumps suck almost all the air. Within the tank is a coil of tungsten wire covered with aluminum. When the wire is electrically heated the aluminum boils off as a vapor which, when it strikes...