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Died. Howard Hale McClintic, 72, engineer, whose far-flung steel-fabricating company (McClintic-Marshall Corp.) built the Panama Canal locks; from an embolism; in Pittsburgh, Pa. Founded at the turn of the century when the Mellons put up a $150,000 stake for McClintic and his partner, Charles Donnell Marshall, McClintic-Marshall paid more than $8,000,000 in dividends up to 1931, when it became a part of Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...gave spare-time academic work to students, part-time public work to vagrants. Across the U. S., youth won wages and self-confidence as they catalogued, filed, checked records, cleared parks and playgrounds, plowed, harrowed, reaped, graded, dumped, filled, drained, made heavy-duty roads and blue-shale tennis courts, built dairy barns and country schools, feed houses and flop houses, stitched, cooked, nursed, painted, studied, bought their board & keep and sent a little something home...
Suregobble, Surelay, Suremilk, Suretürk, Chick Builder, Calf Builder, Turkey Builder, Turkey Finisher. . . . On such products and the more familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years...
...emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show...
Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back...