Word: edisons
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Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...
...been dining by candlelight, but hardly from choice. Rio has been plunged into its most serious power shortage since 1904, when a company eventually taken over by the Canadian-owned Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. brought the city its first electricity and enlightened Brazilian parents began naming their sons Edison-still a favorite first name in Brazil...
...these speed things," he said, "and I am thrilled to get on, because my shirt went out of style 20 minutes ago. I want to tell you that I have attended a few affairs in my life, but never anything like this. When you think that Charles Edison is sitting here, and his father made this spotlight possible-thank you. But Mr. Luce does everything on a grand scale, and on the 25th anniversary of LIFE he did a 90-minute TV show with me as the star, and now he has invited me here. Mr. Luce obviously has vision...
...EAKER MARRINER S. ECCLES CHARLES EDISON JOHN ENDERS
...March 3, 1923. It was, if we may be permitted a bit of fond reminiscence, an entirely new, stylish, venturesome, 30-page publication, all black and white and full of beans. It went to 12.000 charter subscribers, including some names that are printed rather large in history: Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, William Howard Taft, William Allen White, Booth Tarkington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some who were on the original list are still with us; a notable example is New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman...