Word: elon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between men who thought the Government should keep and run Muscle Shoals to benefit farmers and men who thought the Government should sell or lease the project to a private operator. Among the bidders for Muscle Shoals have been Henry Ford, the American Cyanamid Co., the Union Carbide Co., Elon H. Hooker, the Underwood Power Co., the Consolidated Power Co., the Air Nitrates Corp., the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co., the Alabama Power...
Last week a distinguished committee awarded a distinguished architect a new distinction-all of which was most to the taste of a nation in whose vocabulary this word is a favorite son. John Russell Pope was the architect. Secretary of State Kellogg, Will Hays, James R. Garfield, Lawrence Abbott, Elon H. Hooker, Arthur W. Page, Mark Sullivan, Charles D. Walcott, Irwin Kirkwood, Frederick C. Hicks, Hermann Hagedorn, were present at the meeting of the committee. The distinction was the choosing of Architect Pope's design for the proposed Roosevelt Memorial. The Association has appropriated $1,000,000 to build...
Last week there was given to Ford's opponents a new big argument. It is known as the Hooker-White-Atterbury bid. Elon H. Hooker, owner of an electro-chemical company at Niagara Falls, built two of the Muscle Shoals units during the War. J. G. White is a great chemical manufacturer. Atterbury, famed "General," is operative head of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They aggregate no mean amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway...
...letter read to the same gathering, Elon H. Hooker, President of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association, warned of the coming dangers of German low-cost competition. Colonel J. I. McMullen, Judge Advocate of the War Department, for the same reasons urged the necessity of protecting the dye industry through a higher tariff, and also a restriction of our patent laws similar to those abroad, whereby the holder of a patent here must manufacture only in this country...