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...Hoovers boarded Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer and cruised away at slow speed for the Florida Keys, for Fort Myers and a birthday party with their great and good friend Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Hoover planned to go on around to the West Coast and try for an early-running tarpon...
American International Co. $ 6.24 Atlas Powder Company 6.50† Bethlehem Steel Checker Cab Mfg. Corp. Detroit Edison Du Pont de Nemour & Co. Erie Railroad General Cigar Co. Inc. Gillette Razor Hudson Motors National Biscuit Packard Pore Marquette R J Reynolds US Steel Corp. Ward Baking Corp.** Western Union Woolworth Wrigley
...Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5� to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving-picture machine. Author Will Irwin says: "That five-cent piece was the initial investment which grew into his present fortune...
Although now a rich exhibitor, he had nothing to do with making pictures to be exhibited, an industry which had developed from Edison's kinetoscope to a small, tight trust consisting of ten producing companies. Zukor, looking for new attractions for his houses, had been thinking of production when he wrote the slogan that afterward became the name of his company?the Famous Players. Gambling all his money on his belief that there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings...
...Water boils on earth at 212° F.) While they were measuring, Earth passed between Sun and Moon, causing an eclipse. Moon's temperature dropped to 196° below Zero. Less than an hour later the lunar temperature was 155° F. Edison Pettit and Seth Barnes Nicholson, who reported this, estimated that when no sunlight reaches the Moon, her temperature falls to 459° below Zero...