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...body types, mostly commercial. But big news was the '"V" eight in ten body types, completely new in design. Motors will fit either chassis, so the sedan eight may eventually become the station-wagon four. Twenty of them were built over a year ago. The late Thomas Edison rode in one but the car will not be called the Edison, as reported. In November Mr. Ford decided against launching the eight, and the plants were busy on the improved four. Suddenly Mr. Ford said he "felt he was on the wrong track." Instantly the plants shut down to make...
...firms went under with liabilities of $266,172.000. Banks accounted for 290, tied-up deposits of $145,700,000. In receivership within the past month or with petitions pending were Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Long-Bell Lumber Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1 ), Western Steel Products, Ltd.. Ari zona Edison Co., Cuban Dominican Sugar Corp., Spreckels Sugar Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1), Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Co., Multicolor, Ltd., Hamilton Gas Co., Hudson River Navigation Corp., Piedmont Utilities Co., American Equities Co., Texas-Louisiana Power...
...false hand which he used dexterously at tennis and bag punching. For versatility's sake he wrote The Science of Poetry & the Philosophy of Language. Hudson Maxim's older brother was Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916), one-time apprentice coach builder. He tried to beat Edison to the invention of the incandescent electric light bulb, invented a machine gun which loaded and fired itself automatically by its own recoil. He also invented a smokeless powder, tried to invent an airplane, became a British subject, was knighted. "Dr. Shush'' (Hiram Percy Maxim) is his son. Another child...
...Board of Directors of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. there were added last week Floyd Leslie Carlisle and Christy Payne. Mr. Carlisle is chairman of Niagara Hudson and of New York Edison and a director of United Corp. He has recently come to be regarded as personifying the public utility interests of the House of Morgan. Mr. Payne is not only a director of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), but is also the particular New Jersey director who watches over the extensive natural gas interests of the old Rockefeller company. Thus when Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Payne shake hands across...
...Some onetime newsboys: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Roy Wilson Howard, Henry Latham Doherty, John Haydock Carroll, Thomas Alva Edison, William Wrigley Jr., Adolph Simon Ochs, Edward William...