Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Thompson Galliher, 73, of Washington, D. C., banker, trustee of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, treasurer of the Hoover-Curtis inaugural committee; in Washington; of heart disease...
Statistics are skeletons of history. Persons with inexact minds do not like statistics, yet without them industry would have no record. Out of many statistics published last week, most interesting were skyscraper figures in Skyscraper, house organ of Thompson-Starrett Co., builders. These figures showed that in the U. S. there are 778 buildings of ten or more stories, including 377 buildings of 21 or more stories. New York has more than half the buildings in both classifications. Surprising New York statistic is that more than half the high buildings are between 14th and 59th streets, that Midtown Manhattan...
Some of the U. S. authorities are William Green (American Labor and the Church), James P. Thompson (Religion is the Negation of Truth), Abraham J. Muste (Questions from the Left), A. Philip Randolph (Negro Labor and the Church...
...passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank to get the financial experience for the Stone & Webster company which the young graduates already visualized. In 1889 Partners Stone & Webster each borrowed $2,000 from his father, opened offices in Postoffice Square, Boston. They had one employe, their...
Ohio State University William President Oxley Emeritus Thompson, (Ohio State) university ... .LL.D. Arthur Holly Compton, physicist D.Sc. Charles Franklin Kettering, electrical engineer D.Eng...