Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution of telephone usage was a difficult, slow affair. Alexander Graham Bell had been jiggling with a contraption he was determined he would make carry the human voice when his assistant Thomas A. Watson suddenly, clearly heard: "Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you." To this phrase there was no dignity as that attached to "What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install...
Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain (brother of Sir Austen) vigorously attacked a resolution moved by Dr. E. Graham Little (Senior Physician of the East London Hospital for Children), in which it was demanded that an "authoritative inquiry be made into the whole position of irregular practitioners" (chiropractors, osteopaths, "bone setters...
...cash was provided by indefatigable Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., whose purchase and sale of the Dodge concern last spring aroused lively interest everywhere. How much cash it took to purchase the Graham Bros.' control was not stated...
...acquisition of the new truck subsidiary makes Dodge Bros., Inc., the third largest producer of motor cars in the U. S., ranking only after the Fords and General Motors. The production of the Graham concern for the first six months of 1925 amounted to 11,000 trucks- equal to its entire 1924 output. Ever since 1921 Graham Bros, have enjoyed an arrangement with Dodge whereby they used Dodge engines as standard equipment and marketed trucks exclusively through Dodge dealers. As a result, the task of integrating the truck concern into the Dodge organization has already been largely accomplished...
...Graham concern has been active in the manufacture of motor busses, and fleets of Graham busses are now operating in many parts of the world. In Detroit about 140 Graham busses act as feeders to the municipal traction system of the city...