Word: elisha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Challenge," a PBH tutoring program for bright seventh and eighth graders from lower socio-economic areas of Cambridge, will expand nearly four-fold this semester, Elisha M. Gray '66, director of the project, announced yesterday...
Dubbed CHALLENGE, the program's general purpose is to "broaden the cultural horizons of intelligent but economically disadvantaged Cambridge boys and to acquaint them with some of the opportunities that the future holds," according to Elisha Gray '66, director of the project...
Racing the Express. Iceboating is the fastest of all winter sports. In the 1870s, wealthy New York sportsmen got their kicks racing express trains along the Hudson River shore, and in 1908, a New Jerseyite named Elisha Price piloted his ice yacht Clarel to a speed record of 140 m.p.h. But iceboats soon yielded to icebreakers and year-round commerce on the Hudson, and the sport mostly moved West-to the Great Lakes, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The great (up to 68 ft.) old ice yachts that carried more than 1,000 square feet of sail gave way to light...
After a decade of struggle for survival in the turbulent appliance market, Chairman Elisha ("Bud") Gray II, 56, of Whirlpool Corp., could sit back in his office at Benton Harbor, Mich., and comfortably feel the battle won. Sales -more than two-thirds from making Kenmore "white goods" for Sears (which owns 19% of Whirlpool)-hit a record $465 million last year. Earnings were rising smartly. Appliance Buyers Credit Corp., Whirlpool's 80%-owned subsidiary to finance retail sales of its appliances, turned a profit for the first time in 1962. It earned...
From Lions to Titans. Elevators of a sort were around long before Elisha Otis. Crude elevators run by manpower lifted stones for Cheops' pyramid in 2900 B.C., later carried gladiators and lions to the arena level of Rome's Colosseum. There were even steam-powered elevators operating several years before Otis developed his, but Otis worked out a system of springs and ratchets that prevented elevators from falling when hoisting ropes broke. He thus set off a revolution in construction...