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...Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that another war is not unlikely, but insisted, contrary to general opinion, that it will be a very tame slaughter compared to the last one. His reasons: "Europe's general staffs still believe...
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland...
...Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require...
...department and traffic system, once the town's president-chief of police (dual office), fond of distributing nickels and dimes to children, generally known as "Bill'' or "Uncle Bill," who, content with life, has said he would not change places with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William: opened "William Ford Tractor Sales" when Henry began manufacturing tractors, prospered selling tractors and farm implements, ten years ago moved to larger quarters in Highland Park, employed 40 men. Present Economic Status: Henry...
Died. Theodore Thaddeus Ellis, 66, textile man, vice president of The Chicago Daily News, printing equipment inventor and manufacturer; suddenly, of heart disease; in London...