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Last week this pioneering power company reported a profit of $2,500,000 for 1934, a slight increase over the year before. At the same time President Samuel Ferguson was elected board chairman, succeeding the late Samuel G. Dunham, the founder's brother. Upped to the presidency was Viggo E. Bird, a Danish-born engineer who has been a vice president for years...
Small potatoes in the U. S. power basket are Hartford Electric and its affiliate Connecticut Power Co., which serves a few other counties in the State and is not to be confused with Connecticut Light & Power, a United Gas Improvement subsidiary. Yet Samuel Ferguson is keenly and sometimes enviously watched by most of the industry. Instead of spending his best time and talents defending the status quo, he has slaved to promote the use of his power. As a result of his efforts, Hartford Electric's domestic rate has been reduced from...
...years ago Samuel Ferguson started to rent electric ranges "on trial" for 30? per week. Now he has more than 1,700 out and hundreds more have been sold. Last week he reported that the average domestic consumption of power jumped from 793 kwh. in 1933 to 858 kwh. last year. His latest innovation is to offer free current to customers who increase their consumption by certain amounts. Thus, if a householder boosts his meter reading 10 kwh. per month, he may have the next 50 kwh. without charge...
...yesterday of the Committee for the welcoming dinner being held at the Varsity Club on January 31 for Dick Harlow. Richard C. Floyd '11 will be chairman, the other members of the committee being Herman W. Gundlach, Jr. '35; George Owen, Jr. '23; Samuel S. Drury, Jr. '35; T. Ferguson Locke '35; G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10; Edgar N. Wrightington '96; and Delmar Leighton '19. The committee stated that the dinner will be limited to members of the Varsity Club and that applications must be made not later than Friday, January...
...Federal Government; No. 2, the Government of New York City. Impeached and ousted from office in 1917, Ferguson is disqualified by law from holding public office again...