Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed exchange offer whereby it would take over the half-billion-dollar United Light & Power Co., operating in nine middle States and Manitoba, Canada...
Eaton. Persistent through denials was the rumor that Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland steelman and banker, had purchased working control of United Light & Power Co., midwestern utility with $500,000,000 assets and 1928 gross earnings of $89,000,000. The report was that the Eaton purchase was from the Koppers-Mellon interests. Reports also mentioned the Insull, Bonbright and North American Power & Light interests as United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor...
...That it had acquired more than 90% of the common stock of Commonwealth Power Corp., Penn-Ohio Edison and Southeastern Power & Light, operating in eleven States, with total assets of over a billion dollars...
Business, which is rapidly teaching scientists to make fortunes, has lately tried to attract two university chemists who have patented processes of adding vitamins to foods. Dr. Harry Steenboch at the University of Wisconsin invented a way of irradiating foodstuffs with ultraviolet light. Such irradiated foods prevent rickets. When food professors offered him thousands for the use of his patents he organized the Wisconsin Research Foundation, put University of Wisconsin alumni in charge, let the royalties pay for further research...
...lingering hope of a light-wine-and-beer modification of the law which inspired George Ehret to keep his brewery open nearly Ten Years After. The same hope inspired his sons after his death in 1927. Near-beer, as such, would not have interested old George Ehret. From 1866 to 1920 he made real beer-drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition...