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...would be a crime," he stated, "to break up this unique assemblage of historical sources and objects of personal interest, and the only way to keep it together is to erect a special library-archive museum building to held...
...Dark, erect, dashing Captain Byron C. Brown, 48, U. S. Army retired, ran a machine-gun company in World War I until he was badly shot up, in later years prospected for gold in British Guiana mine fields. Nowadays, he and Mrs. Brown live quietly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where summer boarders and the radio provide the chief excitement. One night last winter, tuning around on his all-wave radio, Captain Brown picked up a sure-enough distress call from a tanker aground off Newport, called the U. S. Coast Guard, brought about the rescue...
...equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with me all legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even an angel swear, But being only human...
...dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and an additional $12,000,000 of propellers (which went next door to United's Hamilton Standard division), France has already advanced $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 to erect the new factory. The cost will be defrayed by Pratt & Whitney gradually by a small charge on each engine delivered until the advance is used up. The new factory will belong to Pratt & Whitney with no strings attached. To France this is a necessary extravagance. She needed the engines and United...
...worried because Shell expected to have to spend a million dollars to erect permanent derricks on its 900 East Texas wells as soon as the oil stopped flowing freely and pumping became necessary, The derricks had to be there for pulling and cleaning the wells' rods and tubing once or twice a year. He asked for sketches and bids on a portable unit to do the job, and Franks Co. engineers went to work...