Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three Eastern systems-N. Y. Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Pennsylvania-sat down and attempted to arrange just how they would absorb the rest of the roads in their territory. Unfortunately, everybody wanted the fat and nobody the lean roads. Meanwhile, the Van Sweringens quietly annexed the Nickel Plate, C. & O., Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley (TIME, Aug. 11, 18, April 6), and became a fourth party at the prospective feast. Now, while the four cannot agree on details of distributing small roads among them, a fifth would-be claimant appears-Mr. Leonor F. Loree, Chairman of the Delaware...
...Sweringen brothers are patient men, and apparently their patience is about to be rewarded in the actual realization of their plans for the great Nickel Plate merger. Arguments tor further delay made by minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders have been denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has bgun to consider the merger officially. Its approval will remove the last important barrier to effecting the consolidation...
...latter that Thomas C Powell, Erie Vice President and star witness for the merger promoters, apparently aimed his telling testimony, order to prove that the merger would increase competition rather than monopolize, he pointed out that the new Nickel Plate will touch 28 cities of over 75,000 population, whose aggregate population is 17465,000. The similar figures for rival and competing systems are: New York Central, 30 such cities with 17,655,000 total population; B. & U., 1 cities with 17,266,000; and Pennsylvania, 35 cities with 19,876,000. The implication was that the Pennsylvania was already...
Radio Cinema. A "primastic ring" made a tiny point of light travel across a photographic plate in a succession of parallel adjacent lines, the strength of the light varying with the strength of incoming radio signals?a process much like that used by grandmothers in producing the image of a penny by blacking with their pencils a paper pressed over a coin. Result: wireless photography. Prophecies: the auditor of a radio account of a baseball game, or of an inaugural address, or of a scouting aviator's running report, would some day see the players, the President, the battle...
...Rubber-plating. The colloidal particles in the sap of the rubber tree and in artificial rubber solutions are electrically charged. It was found possible to immerse pieces of metal in a bath containing these particles, charge the metal with a current of opposite sign to the charge in the rubber, and "rubber plate" objects just as silverware is electroplated. Deposits of rubber a fifth of an inch thick were obtained. Vulcanized, the deposits were found to adhere more tightly than ever. It was predicted that fabrics could be similarly treated and the rubber-garment business revolutionized...