Word: utilitycoons
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...effective June 16. Night baseball stopped in Atlanta; many a municipality dimmed its street lights, even obsolescent stand-by plants went into operation. In Washington there was talk of sending the Normandie (which generates 120,000 kilowatts) to light Mobile. Neither a New Deal plot nor a utilitycoon's mistake, the Southern shortage was an act of God: drought...
...weeks ago Dr. Raver took on his Biggest private adversary first. He was bald, thin-nosed Donald C. Barnes, president of Engineers Public Service, which owns Puget Sound Power & Light. No amateur fighter is Utilitycoon Barnes ; for 35 years his company has fought off purchase by Seattle City Light. But when Raver offered to buy out Puget Sound, Veteran Barnes (with Wendell Willkie's experience to guide him) knew the only real question would be price. Raver had another new weapon: SEC's tentative integration plan for E. P. S. (issued this month) implies that Puget Sound...
...James William Good, seven Governors, a bevy of Congressmen, some foreign delegates and Sousa's Band turned up in Minneapolis for the dedication of the Foshay Tower-a 32-story skyscraper modeled after the Washington Monument. That was the biggest day in the life of Wilbur Burton Foshay, utilitycoon. Within two months his whole inflated superstructure of utility, finance and real-estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. W. B. Foshay went looking...
...Grateful to Salida, he has spurned offers to go elsewhere. On the walls of his office (a little red-brick cottage) hang two pictures of the $3,000,000 Foshay Tower. He still keeps the motto which used to hang over his desk when he was a Northwestern reigning utilitycoon: Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
Married. Anne McDonnell, 22, second daughter of James Francis McDonnell, granddaughter of the late Inventor and Utilitycoon Thomas Edward Murray; and Henry Ford II, 22, eldest son of Edsel Bryant Ford, grandson and namesake of Motor Manufacturer Henry Ford; in Southampton, L. I. Born a Protestant, the groom was tutored in the Catholic faith and married by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton John Sheen, who at the conclusion of the ceremony announced: "Pope Pius XII sends his apostolic blessing to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II." Among the 600 guests: the Harvey Firestone Jr.'s, William S. Knudsens, John...