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...invasion of the St. Lawrence Valley would bring the chief war resources of the U. S. -the industrial plants of the Boston -Cleveland -Pittsburgh -Philadelphia quadrilateral - within easy range of enemy bombers. Taking off from Montreal a 250-mile-an-hour bomber can be over Boston in 60 minutes, Buffalo in 75, Pittsburgh in two hours. Established on the line Montreal-Quebec, an invader in strength could move into the northeastern U. S. over a network of highways, using the straight valleys of the Hudson and Connecticut Rivers and their railroads as his chief axes of communications...
...days of Pittsburgh Phil and Buffalo Bill, the No. 1 summer attraction for the country's richest stables was the American Derby at Chicago's Washington Park. Started in 1884 to show snooty Easterners that Chicago was no longer a frontier town, the American Derby offered an inaugural purse of $10,000, more than double what the older, tonier Kentucky Derby offered. By 1893, its purse was $50,000, more than ten times Kentucky's. But, when panic hit its Pit, Chicago gave no thought to thoroughbreds, abandoned its Derby...
...Been visited by a succession of unexplained men, including officials of Underwood Elliott Fisher Co., an employe of an ironworks in Buffalo, a young German who works for Eastman Kodak...
...production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month. The Curtiss factory at Buffalo was meanwhile howling for Allisons for its P-4O pursuit ships, was understood to have 70 to 100 waiting for engines. Bell Aircraft, manufacturer of the speedy Airacobra, was waiting...
...head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner...