Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure was 40%. Almost 80% of U.S. families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff's tube...
...legs, breasts and lips emerging from an immense, sculptured yellow taxicab. He has spotted yellow as New York's special color. "It is an American yellow," he says, "the color of optimism. It's in the taxis, in the mustard, in the Kodak boxes and Con Edison construction tents, in the sanitation trucks." It is a joyful color, which reminds him of the sun. But he adds, "It is also the color of madness...
...Philadelphia, 1,500 subway riders stumbled through darkness from their stalled trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
...young, sandaled Bohemian, he was appalled at the tyrannical influence of the German professors who, he snorted, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." Determined to develop "the natural mother tongue of every Hungarian composer," he teamed with another ardent nationalist, Bela Bartók, and armed with primitive Edison recording machines, roamed the Magyar countryside and collected 12,000 folk songs...
...public practices. Thus, at a state dinner in Rome's tapestry-hung Quirinale Palace, Podgorny broke bread and chatted ami- ably with Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, whose company's struggle with Communist trade unions embittered the immediate postwar years; with Giorgio Valerio, the head of Montecatini-Edison, the electric giant, whose hatred for the left is so virulent that he considered the center-left coalition in Italy little short of treason; and with such other capitalist barons as Olivetti's Aurelio Peccei, E.N.I.'s Marcello Boldrini and Finsider's Ernesto Manuelli. All of them...