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...Bleriot monoplane officially hauled the first sack of mail in 1911, rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages by snagging a pouch hung on a 50-foot cable between two 40-foot poles...
...final dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...
...began to happen fast, 1) At King Powder Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, which makes dynamite, blasting powder, three were killed. 2) At the Atlas plant, Joplin, Mo., which turns out 1,000,000 lb. of TNT monthly for Great Britain, on Aug. 16, five were killed. 3) At Du Font's dynamite plant at Gibbstown, N. J., six days later, four were killed. 4) At the Hercules plant at Kenvil, N. J., in the biggest explosion since World War I, on Sept. 12, 51 were killed. 5) At the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, on Sept. 23, two were...
...puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...
...Rochester, N. Y., a gravid cat sauntered up the aisle of fashionable Christ Episcopal Church during the curate's sermon, gave birth to four kittens in front of the baptismal font...