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President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts...
...When tested, Inventor Barlow's oxygen bomb?so much more powerful- than TNT that Senators burned the minutes describing...
Distracted Mr. Barlow sizzled: "The bomb is dying every second. He meant that the liquid oxygen in his bomb was leaking into the air. A metal case would have held it, but the glmite had been put in a canvas bag so that there would be no flying fragments. Still no Senator Sheppard. Wailed Mr. Barlow: "It's seeping down through the carbon just like water...
Colonel Burton Oliver Lewis, second in command at the Proving Ground, tried putting his arm around Mr. Barlow's shoulder. It was a fatal gesture. Mr. Barlow, without waiting for his bomb, exploded. He shouted: "I'm on the spot. I'm going to get the horselaugh of the whole nation. I'm going. . . ." Into his car he hopped, drove fiercely away, abandoning glmite, goats, goatherds, photographers, Congressmen and Colonel Lewis...
...time's nick Senator Sheppard arrived, intercepted Mr. Barlow. Explanations flowed thick & fast; Mr. Barlow was persuaded to return. Colonel Lewis tried again to put his arm around Mr. Barlow's shoulder, this time succeeded. Mr. Barlow pulled cotton wadding from someone's ears, laughingly stuffed it in the colonel's. Everyone trooped out for a closer look at the steaming bomb. It was decided to postpone the demonstration for nine days...