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Andrew Jackson was President when the Brothers Cooper, Charles and Elias, went into business at Mt. Vernon, Ohio with a pair of horses as capital. They traded the off horse for equipment to build a small cupola iron foundry, kept the near horse to hoist ore to the top of the cupola. The iron was made into heavy castings for carding machinery, sawmills, farm implements. Last week Cooper-Bessemer Corp., direct descendant of the Coopers' cupola foundry, celebrated its centenary. Nearly submerged in the panic of 1837, the Coopers were prospering in the early 1840's, even built...
...hoist the flag of the German Empire -black, white and red-above any Prussian State building is a crime under Prussian State law. Last week this crime was committed by the Fascist Speaker of the Prussian Diet, fiery Hans Kerrl...
...runners crawl around the track, a bunched field thinning out on the last lap while one dark little man sprinted furiously to get in front,it was impossible to see who had won; but after the race was over, the employe received, for the first time, the signal to hoist the Italian flag to the top of his pole. As the flag went up, the employe saw the dark little man fiddling calmly with the zippers of his training pajamas, then walking solemnly across the green arena toward the victory stand, his right hand raised in a Fascist salute...
...slipperiness of ice on an F Street sidewalk was new to him. Most grievously was he insulted to see in print for all the world to read, how he, Carlos Morales, had slipped on such ice, crashed with a mighty thud, required the assistance of four men to hoist him upright again...
...Other Hoist Arrangements...