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...product of one of Iowa's many Main Streets, in the town of Denison. Early in life he developed a passion for tinkering with automobile engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours...
...such matters, Mr. Metz is something more than a mere layman. He owns many chemical factories. But laboratory scientists were slow in getting to work. Said Columbia Professor of Chemistry Bogert: "Mr. Metz has risked little by his offer. . . . The making of a synthetic opium that will have all the medicinal qualities, or the good qualities, and be shy of the narcotic, or bad qualities, is something that I do not believe will be done-at least for a very long time...
...your Original Subscribers-continuous since! Friends of mine have read your magazine in my home, have gone home and subscribed! Seven people of whom I know. Here are their names: Walter Gooch, Minneapolis; B. F. Bullard, Cambridge, Mass.; H. B. Van de Bogert, West Medford, Mass.; Walter F. Gushing, Medford, Mass.; Phillips Byefield, Newtonville, Mass.; Warren Scribuer, Minneapolis; M. R. Lauritzen, Minneapolis...
...Clarke Gunby of Sherman, Texas; Lloyd Onderdork Vernon Mann of Great Neck, L. I., New York; Charles Lawrences Peirson of Essex Falls, New Jersey; Boies Penrose 2d of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Otis Radcliffe Rice of Springfield; John Howland Ricketson 3d of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Eric Sandquist of Concord, New Hampshire; James Bogert Tailer Jr. of New York City; Lawrence Morris of New York City...
...James Bogert Tailer...