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...occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
...York's Hell Gate, between The Bronx and Queens, lies a British frigate wrecked about 1780 with a reputed $4,800,000 in gold aboard. Among its hunters: Simon Lake, inventor of the submarine...
...Harmony Heights, Mass., is devoted to a sharing economy based on the sale of animal traps to the outer world, and to selective breeding designed to do for man "what has long been done for horses, swine and potatoes." The economy breaks down with the advent of a handsome inventor from Yale whose mass-production machinery gives the less hardened socialists their first idea of a capitalist paradise...
...selective breeding strikes a snag when golden-haired Suzanna, chosen to mate with one of the elders who heavily depends on "signs" from on high, prefers instead the young inventor, who has no need of heavenly go signals...
Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...