Word: siemenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineer Sprague was never a man for titles or labels. In 1889 he sold his Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co. to Thomas Alva Edison. Forthwith his name was wiped from the rolling stock of 113 U. S. and foreign electric railways and from all items of construction, equipment and control...
Ludwig II would have given his right ear to have invented the ingenious piano which Bechstein put on the market last week. Combination piano, spinet, harmonium, phonograph and radio receiver, it is no madman's dream, no impractical curiosity, but a precise, scientific musical instrument, substituting electrical apparatus for...
In Berlin the first modern (1859) building built of stone instead of brick was the Börse, or Exchange of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce. Last week such big issues as A. E. G. (German "General Electric"), I. G. Farbenindustrie (Dye Trust), Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works) and Siemens...
In 1923 Col. Sosthenes (Greek for "life strength") Behn went to Spain where he saw an opportunity to make his International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation more international. In Madrid he encountered much excitement. Bidding against him for the Spanish telephone system were Ericsson Co. of Sweden and Siemens & Halske of Germany...
Less dramatic but equally momentous was I. T. & T.'s acquisition last week of a "dominant interest" in L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. The purchase was made from Kreuger & Toll, Swedish match monopolists, bankers, and industrialists who have been dominant in Ericsson for only nine months (TIME, Sept. 15...