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...agenda in the form of papers and in discussions includes: power resources of the different countries, such as hydro-electric, coal and oil; waterpower production; fuel preparation; internal combustion engines; power transmission and distribution; electro-chemistry; transportation, and electrification of railways; standardization and research; domestic, farm and agricultural uses; illumination; education and health; and economics of power production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAWES AND HAERTLEIN NAMED TO CONFERENCE | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...International wrote off virtually its entire investment in utilities and dropped the International Hydro-Electric system from its consolidated balance sheet. Just before the Public Utility Act took effect last December, President Graustein legally washed his hands of New England Power Association, delivering voting control to three trustees. International retained its property rights in the trusteed New England shares and holds title to its Canadian power system. Having taken its losses on these investments, it still has the undiminished possibilities of making money on them eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Graustein Out | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...effects. At one time the company and its subsidiaries had outstanding no less than 35 different bond issues and 25 stock issues, the parent itself boasting two preferreds and three commons designated A, B and C. All the power properties were grouped in a sub-holding company called International Hydro-Electric. On a consolidated basis they represented two-thirds of International's total gross assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Graustein Out | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Joseph A. Broderick. onetime New York State superintendent of banks; Ronald Ransom, executive vice president of Fulton National Bank of Atlanta; John K. McKee, onetime receiver for National banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for the last two and one half years chief examiner for RFC; Ralph W. Morrison. Texas Hydro-electric tycoon, who in 1933 was one of the U. S. delegates to the World Monetary & Economic Conference at London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died in 1921. Peter Cooper Hewitt's only child was a daughter, Ann Cooper Hewitt, born in 1914 when he was 53. She was illegitimate until her father married her mother in 1918 after Mrs. Hewitt I obtained a divorce. By the terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: $500,000 Operation | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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