Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . No doubt, the REA is to be lauded for its Thumb child. However, TIME has overlooked another public-spirited organization. . . . Detroit Edison bought the interests of an ill-managed, holding-company-owned public utility company in The Thumb in 1935. . . . In November 1935, 11,000 Thumb farmers were in need of rural electric service: within two years D.E.C. had supplied the needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when...
Until Thomas Alva Edison tackled the problem of multiple telegraph messages, the most that could be sent over one wire at a time was two. Edison increased the number to four. Later, Western Union engineers developed the "Multiplex" system which enabled them to transmit four communications simultaneously in each direction. "Voice carrier" currents of different frequencies, in Multiplex groups of four, recently made possible 32 messages in each direction over a four-wire circuit. Last week, Western Union announced that an electrical tone generator borrowed from a musical instrument had tripled the figure...
Henry Ford's schools in Greenfield, with 244 pupils all told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian...
Theodore J. Shoolman -- Miss Evelyn Edison, Baltimore...
...result new corporate financing for the first quarter of 1938 amounted to only $111,000,000, a three-year low. That this jam could be broken was indicated by the successful disposal of two big bond issues, Appalachian Electric's $67,000,000 in February and Consolidated Edison's $60,000,000 fortnight ago. Last week brought more evidence that the capital market is opening up: one new issue was sold, three more were announced...