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...idea of using movies in classrooms is as old as the movies themselves. Thomas Alva Edison thought that the movies would be more important as an educational than as an entertainment medium. Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit...
...Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go." Thus, as his father had done before him, and on the same spot in Menlo Park, N. J., recited Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, into the straight horn of the first phonograph ever manufactured, as part of the cornerstone ceremony of an Edison "Tower of Light" monument, to be surmounted by a 13-ft. incandescent bulb...
These "air pockets" that even the specialists did not care to bridge were caused by an overnight decision of the New York State Public Service Commission. Steam's friendly neighbor, Consolidated Edison of New York, which has long owned stock control of Steam, last spring brought its ownership up to 96% in open market purchases which squeezed the price of Steam common from $17 to $33 per share in a fortnight. Anxious to merge Steam with its gas & electric properties, Consolidated applied to the Public Service Commission for permission to offer its own preferred stock in exchange for Steam...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...alarming rate, there was little reason for a preferred stockholder to dump his shares. At one time control of New York Steam rested with the Andrews Institute for Girls in Willoughby, Ohio, the executors of Founder Andrews' estate having paid a bequest in Steam stock. Eventually huge Consolidated Edison of New York bought control, now owns 96% of the common stock. Consolidated plans to merge Steam with the rest of its utility business, has asked the New York State public utility commission to approve an exchange offer by which holders of Steam's preferred issues will get prime...