Word: utilityman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third biggest producer. That year he also won control of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Operating from his Cleveland-based Otis & Co., a securities firm, and a maze of holding companies, Eaton's deals were faster than the eye -or most financial experts-could follow. He helped topple Utilityman Samuel Insull by outfoxing him in a deal that cost Insull companies $56 million...
...southwest of Chicago, told the Atomic Industrial Forum the plant would furnish power at a cost of about three-fourths of a cent per kilowatt-hour when completed in 1960. Said Gale: "This is about the same as the cost of power produced by our newest coal-fired plants." Utilityman Gale acknowledged that in computing the Dresden figures he disregarded the initial $15 million expended on researching the plant, explained, however, that the second, third and fourth reactors might well be spared this research cost, thus could be competitive with coal...
...Chairman Donald Cook, who spent ten years in the commission's public utilities division, last week became assistant to Utilityman Philip Sporn of big American Gas & Electric, and a vice president in A.G. & E.'s engineering and service subsidiary...
...Utilityman Black, the company's president since 1935 (and Shirley Temple's father-in-law), has had to keep up with the needs of California's 46 northern counties, where he sells power to half of the 5,500,000 people. He has also had to fight the threat of public power from the great Central Valley Project, which includes Shasta Dam. As part of his grand plan, Black has added ten new power plants, 200,000 miles of new transmission lines, 15,000 additional miles of distribution lines, and a 500-mile pipeline from Arizona that...