Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientists and their 2,000 assistants. It is the biggest organization of its kind in the world. They invented permalloy and thereby quadrupled the amount of messages possible to send over cables. They made long distance and overseas telephony possible. They have saved the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Western Electric Co., for whom they work, millions of dollars, and helped the companies earn more millions...
...Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...
...Harvard Observatory is the station for the western hemisphere for the telegraphic distribution of current information on astronomical discoveries the service is supplemented by a series of announcement cards, distributed to the astronomical centers in America and Europe. The station was established in 1843 as an institution for original research in astronomical science and at the present time 50 men and women are associated in the work, a few of whom are students in Harvard and Radcliffe...
Graybar. A. T. & T. owns the Western Electric Co., which owns the Graybar Electric Co., which is the world's largest ($75,000,000 business in 1928) distributor of electrical supplies (telephone apparatus, train despatching equipment, cables, loud speakers). A. T. & T. has long been focusing its subsidiaries on strictly telephonic affairs. In 1925, it sold Western Electric's foreign supply business to I. T. & T. Last week, it announced the offer of Graybar's entire $3,000,000 common voting stock to its 2,500 employes and officers, as the Graybar Management Corp...
...continued, "and we certainly will have to keep busy to stay abreast of them. According to 4 this present unwritten agreement we have with the Imperial Institute they help us to get to the oldest records and examples of Japanese art while we assist them in studying our Western culture...