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...managing agency of the three companies supplying Poona, Broach and Karachi with power & light. Last week the majority of United Eastern Agencies' stock went to American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. The minority holders are largely the same prominent Indians who share with American & Foreign Power control of Tata Hydro-Electric Agencies, Ltd., managing agent for several big power companies in the Bombay district...
Universal Oil Products. Only a financier as daring as Mr. Armour would have possessed 400 share's of that stock at the outset. He it was who, during a trip west in 1914, gathered together a few associates and formed the company (originally as National Hydro-Carbon Co.) to take over certain oil refining patents of Pennsylvania Inventor Jesse A. Dubbs. In 1916 Promoter Hiram J. Halle was made president. Halle's entire staff consisted of Jesse Dubbs, two assistants, and the two Dubbs sons, Carbon and C. A. No attempts were made to operate with the patents...
...Carbon. Technical name for the condensed oil is "hydro-carbonated vapors." Therefore Inventor Dubbs had named one of his sons "Carbon." When Son C. A. and Son Carbon worked together in Universal Oil Products, fellow-workers were confused, so Son Carbon took a middle initial, "P." They expanded it to "Petroleum." After his father's death, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs worked hard to perfect the invention. He increased the company's patent holdings to more than 1,000, issued and pending. Last week he, 49, once poor, grey now and serious-eyed, received $3,582,045 for his share...
...talk on the Fifteen Mile Fall hydro-electric development will be given by E. W. Dillard, electrical engineer of the New England Power Construction Company, tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock in a meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society in 110 Pierce Hall...
Canadian cities serviced by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario...