Word: sporn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Philip Sporn, 81, former president of the American Electric Power Co., once the world's largest private producer of electric power; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Austrian-born, "Mr. Public Utility" joined the forerunner of AEP in 1920, became its chief engineer in 1933 and president in 1947. By producing power at lower cost, the seven-state utility network encouraged the widespread use of electricity and helped industrialize the Ohio Valley...
Cultivate the Garden. The statement drew objections from some CED members who still feel that business can serve society best by conducting its own operations effectively. In a biting dissent, Philip Sporn, former president of American Electric Power Co., argued that before business gets any heady notions of saving society it must first improve its own performance. The railroad industry, he said, would serve society best by designing the "modern system of transportation" that so far it "has not even approached"; the New York Telephone Co. should improve its present "third rate" service; and the utilities' main obligation, which...