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...Greyhound did even better: 72 hrs. 4 min. for the 1,200 miles, a record still. As he worked with his racers, he evolved a boat that could jump over logs and even small spits of land without injuring propeller or other vital organs. From this grew the Higgins Eureka, a 36-foot motorboat with a spoonbill bow, a V midship section, and a semi-tunnel protecting the propeller, so sturdy that it can rush right up on a beach without hurting itself...
...companies used the Eureka for exploration trips in the Louisiana bayous, later tried it on the Amazon, in the Persian Gulf, in the Far East. But it took war to put A. J. Higgins into the big time. His Higgins Industries, Inc. (70% owned by A.J. and his family) went into receivership in July 1931 with a total plant and equipment account of $2,565. As late as 1935, the company's total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats...
...Manhattan's Mager & Gougelman, oldest and largest U.S. glass-eye maker, scenting a shortage, had put U.S. glass companies to work analyzing the German glass. A chemist at Northwestern University finally cried Eureka, and last week Mager & Gougelman were making eyes from a domestic glass which they said was better than that old German stuff...
...astronomy here, tried to pour oil on troubled waters with an article in the M.I.T. Review. He suggested that the comet had been coming this way for 2000 years, and was too tired to glow. Its last appearance here, he said, "was probably about the time Archimedes was crying 'Eureka...
...Eureka, Calif., Rudy Reidel paid $3.65 for a turkey, took it home, extracted a $4.86 gold nugget from its crop...