Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the naval review, he visited Bolling Field with Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, inspected every type of Army plane there stationed and also the latest Naval equipment at nearby Anacostia. From his car the President watched mechanics demonstrate the marvels of folding wings, retractable pontoons...
...dynamos as Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. Last week's announcement, result of several quiet conferences between utility magnates and the Administration powers, was seen in various lights by the utility men. One said: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Chairman Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. would only say: "We are delighted to make the studies with the Government.'' Mr. Groesbeck declared: "The results of the meeting this morning afford an excellent demonstration of what can be accomplished when government and industry sit across the table in cooperation...
...model parents for the new company. Owens, with total assets of $87,562,251, is the world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...
Died. May Irwin (Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt), 76, famed oldtime comedienne, the toast of Broadway in the early 1900s; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. Her only cinema appearance (the 50-foot May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, which Thomas A. Edison made) shocked the '90s. Some of the famed songs she introduced: Hear Dem Bells, After the Ball Is Over...
...Chicago Airport, at the start of one evening's rush hour, suddenly went black. A main supply cable of the Commonwealth Edison Company had failed. Due between seven and nine were a dozen planes, 100 passengers. Unable to warn them because the airport's 14 radio transmitters were dead, quick-thinking operations men dashed to ships still on the ground, flashed the word aloft over battery-run airliner radios...