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...begins in the early 1800s, when Samuel Blodgett, a Massachusetts businessman, was looking for a farm to buy near the small village of Derryfield on the Merrimack River. Just back from England, and impressed with the opportunities in the textile industry, he instead put his fortune into building a canal linking the Merrimack with Boston. He boasted: "Here, at my canal, will be a manufacturing town that shall be the Manchester of America." The small cotton mill he started did indeed grow to house the largest textile mill in the world, and after his death Derryfield was renamed Manchester...
...secret until the end of World War II, when the Allies captured Nazi stores. Releasing a flood of the body chemical acetylcholine, which sets off muscle contractions, nerve gases cause uncontrollable convulsions in their victims. By one scientist's account, according to Hersh, "The pupils, bladder and alimentary canal constrict, the penis erects, the tear and saliva glands secrete and the heart slows." The victim is generally asphyxiated...
...sports shirt and goes to the office." Only by exercising their ingenuity do any members of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet beat the system to organize makeshift vacations for themselves. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd forgets horsepower and highways by bicycling on towpaths along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part of his job to explore his 28,051,328-acre domain in the National Parks System. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had a gall bladder operation earlier...
...Hare, the world's busiest commercial airport, sometimes was logging two-hour tieups. One frustrated Detroit-bound passenger decided to drive instead-and almost beat the plane. An English tourist in Los Angeles sampled U.S. airline hang-ups and threatened to take a ship home through the Panama Canal. A pilot flying from Bermuda to New York advised passengers on takeoff-accurately, as it turned out-of his three-hour flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay at Kennedy rose last week...
When the U.S. Navy launched its Mobile Riverine Force in South Viet Nam's canal-laced Mekong Delta, it soon became obvious that servicing the mini-flotilla was a maxi-headache. Riverine's little boats would slip into the maze of marshlands for long patrols, far from the medical and military aid of the mother ship anchored in one of the larger rivers. The most obvious means of supply was by helicopter, but most of the Delta is too wet and soft to support the weight of a chopper...