Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Photographic Board: Edward B. Hubbard, sub-chairman, Wilson V. Binger, Daniel E. O'Reilly, Ernest Sachs, Jr., Arthur Schuh, and Edward F. Whitney...
...list of patronesses for the dance, headed by Mrs. Edward A. Whitney, was announced yesterday, as follows: Mrs. Ludlow Griscom, Mrs. William S. Ferguson, Mrs. Leigh Hoadley, Mrs. W. Lloyd Warner, Mrs. Huntington Brown, Mrs. William K. Gordon, Mrs. Ernest F. Langley, Mrs. William P. Maddox, Mrs. Donald Scott, and Mrs. William R. Stevens...
Meanwhile great strides were made in mechanical wheat harvesting. Threshers, reapers, combines, tractors replaced the man with the scythe and profoundly changed the economy of the grain-growing West. But today the cotton crop is harvested exactly as it was when Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin-by Negroes moving between the rows of plants, plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuffing them into huge bags which the pickers drag behind them. An average picker bags about 100 Ib. of seed cotton a day, for which, if he is hired by a plantation owner, he may, in good times...
...Director Willis Rodney Whitney of General Electric's laboratories found that his body grew hot from an accumulation of high frequency waves when he stood in the path of a short-wave radio sending set. Out of that observation, Director Whitney developed the radiotherm, a boxlike device permeated by short waves in whose field a sick person might lie and develop a high artificial fever...
...Whitney's radiotherm attracted the attention of General Motors' Mr. Kettering. Mr. Kettering, an inveterate tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner...