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...York might yet be the first State to go in for the wholesale production of power had moved the big power companies that serve New York City to volunteer lower rates. Last week acrimonious hearings were held before the Public Service Commission on the proposal of the New York Edison, Brooklyn Edison, United Electric Light & Power. Bronx Gas & Electric and New York & Queens Electric Light & Power to reduce the domestic rate from 7¢ to 5¢ per kilowatt hour but to add a 60¢ charge to every monthly bill for "meter service." Such a rate cut would...
...EDISON As I KNOW HIM?Henry Ford ?Cosmopolitan...
...coal industry last week when Prestcoke Corp. of Chicago formally opened its first plant. In at one end went bituminous coal, out at the other came shiny briquets, while coal dealers and the Press watched and listened to the high hopes of the promoters: Clarence S. Lomax, inventor; Charles Edison Poyer, grandnephew of Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Hitchcock Jr., international polo captain. The infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove...
...Ford's Edison...
...genius of Edison, already legendary, here shines forth in all its glory. It has amazing extent. Not only does the Wizard figure out what needs inventing and then invent it, but he trains a sales force, markets his product. At heart a chemist, he is entirely at home in physics, astronomy, architecture, politics. Many business practices owe their origin to him. His phenomenal memory recalls with equal ease the make of his first printing press, the dimensions of his early laboratory, scientific facts pertaining to his many inventions, and every superior funny story anyone has told...