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...Society of Philadelphia: for being "scholarly and original in research, philosophical in his thinking, and concerned with the influence of geography on institutions and on society." Lewis Buckley Stillwell, 72, consulting engineer, onetime Westinghouse researcher; the Edison Medal (an award founded by friends and associates of the late great inventor): for "pioneer work in the generation, distribution and utilization of electric energy," especially alternating current, which Thomas A. Edison once vociferously disapproved...
...Michael Owens, backed by Edward Libbey, invented the automatic bottle-making machine, formed Owens Bottle Machine Co., now Owens-Illinois. Another inventor, one Irving Colburn, hadi invented an improved method of making glass sheets. Messrs. Libbey and Owens bought the Colburn patents, improved the process, went into the flat glass business. But they kept bottles & windows in two separate corporate packages and the only connection today between Libbey-Owens-Ford and Owens-Illinois is the name of the late, great Mike Owens...
...single taxer and developed the idea years ago under names like Business and The Landlord's Game. Monopoly in its present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold a few to friends, finally got it into Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., No. 1 U. S. game makers, turned Monopoly down at first because it required too many gadgets, took too long to play (two hours...
...order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...
...Manhattan, the President stopped at Newark to sit in a meeting of New Jersey's National Emergency Council presided over by Charles Edison, son of the late great inventor. Said the President in an informal speech: "I want to say just one word about the usefulness of what we are doing. There is a grand word that is going around, 'Boondoggling.' It is a pretty good word. If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come...