Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When in the middle of the week Candidate Reid and his 48 competitors entered the Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought...
While the "49ers" were going around his plant, Inventor Edison chewed a cigar and consented to answer a questionnaire that newsmen had presented to him. To the question, "What do you think of the future of the talkies?" his answer was emphatic: "Without great improvements people will tire of them. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in silent pictures." Then, to another query, he gave ambition, imagination, and the will to work as the key to success...
Because most Irish homes and nearly all Irish huts are now lit by candles and primitive flame lamps, the Shannon River Power Plant is only one phase of a bold, nationwide electrification program now being carried through by the mighty Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert...
...means the first such Insull purchase. New England textile mills have been shutting down in numbers for the past several years. And Samuel Insull has been on hand to buy them in, not because he wanted to get into the sagging textile industry but because a textile plant in the hand is a power plant in the bush. Cotton mills are built beside waterfalls and alert Mr. Insull is a maker and seller of electricity...
Walgreen Co. (Owns 275 stores, controls 21 additional. Has own laboratories, and ice cream plant in Chicago. Assets $15,000,000. 1928 sales 31,389,000-eight and one half times the 1923 sales.) Net income, first half...