* The Graybar Story

The electrical distribution business was later spun off from Western Electric and organized into a separate company, Graybar Electric Company, Inc .. Barton had been employed by Western Union to examine and test new products.

Also that year, the remaining outstanding shares of stock were purchased from Western Electric with a $ 1 million check signed by Graybar President Frank A. Ketcham.

Overall the company enjoyed strong growth in the years following World War II, its momentum not checked until the recession of the mid-1970s, which led to Graybar slashing its workforce by 20 percent.

In 1991 it accounted for just 17 percent of Graybar sales, but by 1999 totaled 38 percent.

This electrical distribution business was spun off from Western Electric in 1925 and organized into a separate company, Graybar Electric Company, in honor of the company's founders, Elisha Gray and Enos Barton.

* Graybar Electric Company

Comdial sold most of their systems through wholesalers in the US such as Graybar Electric and Tech Data.

Graybar president Albert L. Salt ( left ) presents $ 3 million check to Western Electric president Edgar S. Bloom, as Graybar employees ’ down payment toward the purchase of their company in 1929. Scores of electrical supply manufacturers were using the company's distribution network, and business relationships were formed.

The Graybar Electric Company was capitalized at $ 9 million and consisted of 59 distributing houses in cities across the U. S. Graybar had become the largest merchandiser of electrical supplies in the world.

Graybar engaged in some external growth, making several acquisitions in 1999 and 2000, the largest being Splane Electric Supply Co., a Detroit, Michigan, company with $ 30 million in annual sales, 70 employees, and six locations.

Graybar Electric Company, Inc. is engaged in the distribution of electrical, communications and data networking products and the provision of related supply services primarily to electrical and comm / data contractors, industrial plants, federal, state and local governments, commercial users, telephone companies and power utilities in North America.

* Graybar Electric Company Building ( Detroit, Michigan )

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Today, Graybar operates a network of 240 distribution centers throughout the U. S., Canada and Puerto Rico as well as authorized agents around the world.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

After starting his writing career by writing for " true confession " style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

* Bob Brunning, The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, Omnibus Press, 2004 ; foreword by B. B.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, by Avery Hopwood.

) Two years later, Capp's studio issued Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a 1958 biographical comic book distributed by The Fellowship of Reconciliation.

* Carew: A Story of Civil War in the West Country by Dennis Russell, ( Aidan Ellis Publishing, 2001 ).

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World – Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran it.

There was also a special coffee table book called The History of The Beano: The Story So Far, published by Waverly Books.

* " Balance ", a song by Axium from The Story Thus Far

The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.

Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).

Lu Xun also criticised Confucianism heavily for shaping Chinese people into the condition they had reached by the late Qing Dynasty: his criticism are well portrayed in two of his works, A Madman's Diary and The True Story of Ah Q.

The Compact Disc Story, told by a former member of the taskforce, gives background information on the many technical decisions made, including the choice of the sampling frequency, playing time, and disc diameter.

The 1997 films FairyTale: A True Story, and Photographing Fairies, were inspired by the events surrounding the Cottingley Fairies.

The first feature-length computer animated film was the 1995 movie Toy Story by Pixar.

The other version was presented by Richard Zacks in his 2002 book The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd.

In Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day asserts " I was named by my mother in honor of her favorite actress, Doris Kenyon, a silent screen star of that year 1924.

* Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn

However, claims from Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's controversial Mao: the Unknown Story allege that Mao knew about the famine from the beginning but didn't care, and eventually Mao had to be stopped by a meeting of 7, 000 top Communist Party members.

Father's Footsteps: The Story of Damon Runyon by his Son.

The Electric Light Orchestra Story, Bev Bevan's memoirs from his early days and throughout his career with The Move and ELO, were also published in 1980.

Electric Rivers The Story of the James Bay Project.

1979's Born Again featured a song satirically mythologizing the Electric Light Orchestra ( and their arranging style ) entitled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

:* " She's Electric " from ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ( 1995 ) ends with the same chord progression as the end of " With a Little Help From My Friends ".

Moroder also scored other films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Midnight Express, Flashdance, The Never Ending Story, Thief of Hearts, Electric Dreams, Cat People and Over the Top.

Other books include " Electric Muse: The Story Of Folk Into Rock " and " The Face of Folk Music ".

Men and Volts, the Story of General Electric, published 1941.

In late 2011 it was revealed that Australian director Mark Hartley is working on a documentary about Cannon Films called Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films.

* Electric Heart the Don Ellis Story Synopsis and Credits by John Vizzusi

*, Story of the Bartons on Electric Scotland

* Thomas Commerford Martin and Stephen Leidy Coles, The Story of Electricity, New York 1919, no ISBN, Chapter 13 " The Electric Furnace ", available on the Internet Archive

Men and Volts, the Story of General Electric published 1941.

The song was originally intended to be the " Digsy's Dinner " of Be Here Now ( the lighthearted novelty track, such as " Digsy's Dinner " on Definitely Maybe and " She's Electric " on ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory?