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...Paris, to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. Soon he had a research laboratory of his own. Four years later he patented the induction motor, first effective utilization of alternating current. He discovered the rotary magnetic field principle used today in the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls. He invented dynamos, transformers, induction coils, condensers, arc and incandescent lamps. He was acclaimed a great genius...
...Ferguson, longtime vice president, was elected president of St. Regis Paper Co., succeeding Floyd L. Carlisle, New York power tycoon, who became chairman of the board of directors. In 1931 St. Regis Paper exchanged its extensive stock holdings in Floyd Carlisle's Niagara Hudson Power Corp. for 2,170,000 shares of United Corp., still holds 10% of United Corp.'s stock...
Leader of the opposition is Floyd Leslie Carlisle, not only board chairman of Consolidated Gas Co., which serves some 8,000,000 persons in & around New York City, but also of Niagara Hudson Power Corp., which serves nearly one-half the rest of the state. Having personally led the fight in the open committee hearings in Albany, Utilitarian Carlisle last week hopped to a microphone to reply to Governor Lehman's appeal for support. Mr. Carlisle attacked the Constitutionality of the 5% emergency rate bill, defended the holding company and challenged, as all good power men do, the economics...
...type of ocean-going cargo vessel which could use the waterway (up to 15,000 tons) from Duluth to the mouth of the St. Lawrence: nine days. Such vessels would require nine days more to reach Liverpool. Canada has already spent $130,000,000 on the Welland Canal around Niagara Falls. That is half of her half of the total cost...
...from nearly all the big banks of the U. S. They stepped out to comply with the provision of the Banking Act of 1933 which prohibits a person interested in dealing in securities from serving as a bank director after Jan. 1. Among retiring directors: Floyd L. Carlisle of Niagara Hudson and Frederic J. Fisher (bodies) from Manhattan's National City. Philip Stockton of Boston's First National reversed the drift by resigning from First of Boston Corp. (securities affiliate...