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...field was the 400-acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...
...baronial style, "Mister Harry" is known as "the Speed Kid." He had already made himself a local god with fast horses, fast automobiles, speed boats, when in 1926 Barnstormer Jimmy Wedell dropped down into Patterson to look around. Among the gawpers who flocked about Wedell's rickety crate was ''Speed Kid" Williams, then 40. Results: Wedell taught nim to fly, sold him a plane, became his good friend, confided his own ambitions. Wedell could not read a blue print (he cannot do it yet) but he knew what kind of plane he wanted. Speed Kid Williams built...
John Lager's next great discovery was a pure fluke. In 1908 he sent a crate of 1,000 dormant,unpotted orchid plants from Colombia to his greenhouses in New Jersey. Since they were not in flower, there was no way of telling more than that they were Cattleya Gigas, a fairly common orchid family. Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate. The rest Mr. Lager potted, put in the greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever...
...begin with, the broiler's raiser is often told to what wholesaler he may sell. The truck and the very crate in which the broiler rides to town may be under criminal control. The food the broiler gets is sold by racketeers, and in the middle of the day or night he may be surprised to find his crate broken open, himself dumped out to squawk and flap in brief freedom until a predatory child or housewife captures him from his rightful owners...
...inspect her home after March 4. Mrs. Hoover received her in the Green Room. From there they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some...