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4 unusual facts about McGraw


History of street lighting in the United States

When the sodium era began around 1970, the company (by then, renamed McGraw-Edison) produced the boxy, rectilinear, more simplified Unidoor 400 (for metropolitan expressways and city boulevards) and Unidoor 175 (for smaller residential streets and alleys).

McGraw-Hill Building

330 West 42nd Street, a landmark building in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1930

New-York Central College, McGrawville

New-York Central College, McGrawville was an institution of higher learning founded by Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor and other anti-slavery Baptists in 1849 in McGraw, New York.

Violet Barclay

Initially using the name Violet Barclay, she went on staff at Timely in January 1942, when the company moved from its first location, the McGraw-Hill Building, to its home of the next several years, the Empire State Building.


4432 McGraw-Hill

Originally erected at Stinchfield Woods near Dexter, Michigan, in July 1969, the telescope was moved to its current location in 1975 through the generous financial support of McGraw-Hill Incorporated and the Sloan Foundation.

Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1937

Connie Mack and John McGraw, who had been excellent players in the 1890s and had gone on to be the winningest managers in their respective leagues - Mack with 9 American League pennants and 5 World Series titles, and McGraw with 10 National League pennants and 3 World Series titles;

Batesian mimicry

Wickler, W. (1968) Mimicry in Plants and Animals (Translated from the German) McGraw-Hill, New York.

Battle 360°

Among the veterans interviewed for the program are pilots Captain Donald "Flash" Gordon, Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa, Rear Admiral James D. Ramage, and Bruce McGraw.

Colorado Field

The Colorado Aggies won nine conference championships here between 1915 and 1955 with players such as Ralph "Sag" Robinson, Kenny Hyde, Julius Wagner, Thurman "Fum" McGraw, Jack Christiansen, Gary Glick and Oscar Reed playing here during its life.

Duckpin bowling

The Baltimore Sun of December 28, 1899, said that at the McGraw-Robinson bowling, billiards and pool hall the night before, the facility's manager had introduced duckpins.

Earl and Edgar McGraw

During the Grindhouse segment Planet Terror, Earl McGraw is forced to kill his wife Ramona after she turns into a zombie, while Dakota takes refuge in his house.

Edmund Skellings

Skellings' system of organizing text on a color monitor led to the publication of a color authoring system entitled Electric Poet by International Business Machines Inc. in 1984 and a further product entitled Easy Street by McGraw-Hill.

Engineering News

Engineering News-Record, a weekly magazine published by The McGraw-Hill Companies

Fran Ross

Ross moved to New York in 1960, where she applied to work for McGraw-Hill and later Simon and Schuster as a proofreader, working on Ed Koch's first book, among others.

Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Jonathan Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy (German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

Gwen Lux

Her commissions included sculptures for Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the McGraw-Hill Building in Chicago, the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit, and the centerpiece for the first class dining room of the SS United States.

Harold McGraw III

McGraw is also chairman of the National Council on Economic Education; co-chair of Carnegie Hall's Corporate Leadership Committee and member of its Board of Trustees; member of the boards of the New York Public Library, National Organization on Disability, National Academy Foundation, Partnership for New York City, National Actors Theater and Prep for Prep.

In 1999, McGraw and his father Harold McGraw, Jr. accepted the Honor Award from the National Building Museum on behalf of the McGraw-Hill Companies, which were recognized for their contributions to the U.S.'s built environment.

IBooks

The day before the iPad event, Terry McGraw, the CEO of McGraw-Hill, appeared to divulge information to Erin Burnett on CNBC about the upcoming iPad release.

If You're Reading This

In 2001, "unknown fans" taped McGraw's performance of the song "Things Change" during the CMA awards, and posted the recording to Napster; as a result, several stations downloaded and played the live telecast of that song.

Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League

Casey Stengel made the following comment in later life, evidently still feeling stung from having been traded by the New York Giants to the Boston Braves in the 1923-1924 off-season, despite having hit 2 game-winning home runs in the World Series: "It's lucky I didn't hit 3 home runs in three games, or McGraw would have traded me to the 3-I League!"

Jay McGraw

Jay Phillip McGraw (born September 12, 1979 in Wichita County, Texas) is the son of Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw.

Jeffrey A. Krames

As former Vice President and Publisher of McGraw-Hill's trade business books division, Jeffrey Krames has personally edited and published more than 275 business books, including many award-winning, best-selling titles on business luminaries that include Jack Welch, Michael Ovitz, Ross Perot, William Paley, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Herb Kelleher, and Lou Gerstner among others.

Joanie Greggains

Greggains, Joanie, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Fat Flush Plan, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2003, ISBN 0-07-143547-6

Joseph J. Thorndike

American Heritage sold to McGraw-Hill in 1970, to private investor Samuel Pryor Reed of New York City in 1976, to Forbes in 1986, and to an independent publisher, Edwin S. Grosvenor, in 2007.

Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies

That year, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America awarded KBAS a Philament Award, and McGraw-Hill Construction selected them for Project of the Year in park/side/landscaping.

Machinist's handbook

During the decades from World War I through World War II, these phrases could refer to either of two competing reference books: McGraw-Hill's American Machinists' Handbook or Industrial Press's Machinery's Handbook.

Parkinson's law of triviality

Jan Pen, Harmony and Conflict in Modern Society, (Trans. Trevor S. Preston) McGraw–Hill, 1966 p.

Presbyterian Church of McGraw

Presbyterian Church of McGraw is a historic Presbyterian church located at McGraw in Cortland County, New York.

Randy Karraker

He previously was the host of the popular CCIN television program Chalk Talk, along with Malcolm Briggs, McGraw Millhaven, and Tony Twist.

Richard D. Braatz

He has received many honors including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the Antonio Ruberti Foundation and IEEE Control Systems Society.

Robert G. Jahn

He has received the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Society for Engineering Education and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Andhra University.

Roger Bresnahan

The Giants obtained younger and faster players in 1909; McGraw had Chief Meyers ready to succeed Bresnahan at catcher.

Samuel McGraw

Tim McGraw, Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born 1967), American country singer and actor

Sandy Baron

Sandy wrote and recorded a number of comedy albums including The Race Race and God Save the Queens co-written with Reverend James R. McGraw, editor/writer of Dick Gregory's books.

Shelagh Armstrong

Launching her illustration career in the Canadian book industry, and working with publishing houses such as McClelland and Steward and McGraw-Hill, Armstrong’s diverse artistic accomplishments also include book cover illustration for acclaimed authors as Alberto Manguel, Dionne Brand, Lillian Nattel and Shauna Singh Baldwin.

Snooper

Snooper and Blabber, one of the sequences from The Quick Draw McGraw Show

SoftBook

Publishers included HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, and others, and subscriptions to periodicals such as Newsweek, Time, and The Wall Street Journal were available (which could be downloaded automatically overnight if users kept the device plugged into a phone jack).

Soul to Soul

Soul2Soul Tour (2000) or Soul2Soul II Tour (2006–07), co-headlining tours by country music singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

Space Station Freedom

James Oberg, Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001)

Stephanie Cooke

In 1980 she moved to McGraw-Hill in New York as a reporter for Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel and Inside N.R.C. In 1984 she transferred to London and two years later covered the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for Business Week and Nucleonics Week.

StraighterLine

The company primarily offers McGraw-Hill course content delivered via a Blackboard learning management system, very similar to the delivery model used by many online colleges and universities.

String section

Nicolas Slonimsky described the cellos-on-the-right arrangement as part of a 20th century "sea change" (Lectionary of Music, p. 342 (McGraw-Hill 1989).

Telluride

"Telluride", a song from Josh Gracin's second studio album, We Weren't Crazy (2008); a cover of the Tim McGraw song of the same name

The Warren Brothers

Also that year, McGraw performed "If You're Reading This" at the Academy of Country Music awards, and released that song as a single after radio stations began playing a telecast of the song.

Thomas McGraw

Tam McGraw died of a suspected heart attack at his home in Mount Vernon, Glasgow.

Vivean Gray

She portrayed mathematics teacher Miss McGraw in Peter Weir's film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

Wolfgang Langewiesche

Stick and Rudder : An Explanation of the Art of Flying, McGraw-Hill, New York, Copyright 1944 & 1972, ISBN 0-07-036240-8


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