Word: light
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually ate those twelve eggs. Well, good for him; for there is little else to egg one on in The Street of Sin. Basher Bill lives in the slums of London with a blonde harlot who loves him. His occasional business is thuggery & robbery. But, one day, his eyes light on a Salvation Army lass (Fay Wray) and he soon gives up sin to help her wash slum babies. Comes a police raid; and Basher Bill is shot while trying to protect the babies. As he dies, the Army lass sheds tears of joy because the blonde harlot renounces...
Elected. Preston S. Arkwright, president of the Georgia Power Co., to be president of the National Electric Light Association...
Japan's rivers no longer dash down Japan's mountains only to spray cherry trees and artists painting their delectable scrolls. The waters now swoop into flumes and pipes and against great turbine fins to light bulbs in Japan's homes and turn the machines of her factories. Japan's electrical enterprises now are surpassed only by those of the U. S. and Germany. They represent $1,834,000,000 capital...
Last week the first of those enterprises both in time and size-the Tokyo Electric Light Co.-offered to sell $121,809,250 mortgage bonds. This is the largest corporate (as distinct from governmental) bond offering and the largest power & light company issue, either foreign or domestic, ever made. And yet investment bankers sought eagerly for allotments. To Japanese bankers went approximately $30,000,000 worth, to British...
Although J. P. Morgan & Co. were not in this syndicate (they always lead, never follow), yet they have been closely connected with Japan's international financing and the bond salesmen who sallied out of those 30 company offices last week with Tokyo Electric Light mortgage bonds carried on their banners a legend of Japan phrased by Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Said he last October, just as he was completing a visit of inspection over the country and its possessions: "We believe in Japan; we believe in her peaceful intentions; we believe in her courage, her patience, her faith...