Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harris, Forbes Co. 319.8 249.4 569.3
Harris, Forbes & Co. began in 1882 as N. W. Harris & Co. At that time Founder Norman Wait Harris had an office on Chicago's Clark St., three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such...
Last week marked what may well be a turning point in the campaign of Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) to enforce the Equity closed shop in Hollywood (TIME, July 8, Aug. 5). Six cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto...
He observed experiments and progress in Switzerland. He formed an International Niagara Commission, with Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow for chairman, to act as judges in a prize competition for the design of the Niagara generators. From the first, the Commission advised against Alternating Current, but the...
Inventor Westinghouse, meanwhile, had been following Mr. Adams' movements and investigating Alternating Current for himself. He was prepared, when the bids were let, to construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air...