Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arcy Ryan, who is to General Electric Co.'s light research what the late great Charles Proteus Steinmetz was to its studies in power, is charged with arranging electrical displays all over the U. S. for a summer-long continuation of the festivities...
...face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. drove to his Manhattan home last week, his car nearly bumped an inebriate couple emerging from a speakeasy close by the Rockefeller residence. To avoid undesirable neighbors, Mr. Rockefeller long ago bought most of the block. Rockefeller lawyers were reported planning action to dry up the Rockefeller neighborhood, including the section bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and 48th and 51st streets, honeycombed with speakeasies, which Mr. Rockefeller lately bought as site for the Metropolitan Opera and a smart shopping centre...
Manhattan-Philadelphia financier, and his associates of Dieppe Corp. (including Financier William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr., Banker Jules Semon Bache, Cinemagnates Adolph Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...
...retirement (1913) of Colonel Edward M. Knox, son of Founder Charles Knox, and before the arrival of the present management, which, under the leadership of President F. H. Montgomery, showed net earnings in 1928 of $859,997, or $10.10 a share on common stock. Acquiring Dunlap & Co. (1919), Long's Hat Stores Corp. (1927), Kaskel & Kaskel Corp. (1928), Knox Hat Co., Inc., today operates 62 retail stores as well as distributing Knox and Dunlap hats through some 2,500 agencies. Net sales in 1928 were...