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...Davison Rockefeller Jrs. to tea; 2) ascended with Alfred Emanuel Smith to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building whence he peered through dark green glasses at the city's multicellular environs; 3) called on Thomas Alva Edison at West Orange, N. J. and inspected models of the inventor's achievements. The royal plan: to stay on at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y. until late July, go to Canada for a month, sail for Siam from Vancouver...
...roundly applauded speaker Charles Franklin Kettering, long, jointed head of General Motors Corp. Obscure to the general public, Re searcher Kettering deserves fame as inventor of the self-starter (first used Cadillac), as an important contributor the perfection of Duco, Ethyl Frigidaire. Surrounded at home and work by strange mechanical devices simplify life.* Mr. Kettering has that the chief block to progress is the stag nancy of human minds. Less diabolic it first sounds is his theory that and dissatisfaction are the best forces for improvement and progress. week he reiterated his credo that is "a method of keeping everybody...
...abandoned, however, because of the danger of destruction by incendiary bullets from the steamer. Wholly unrelated to a dirigible save by its bullet shape, airplane motor and propeller drive is a so-called "rail Zeppelin" which made its maiden trip over a commercial route in Germany last week. With Inventor Franz Kruckenberg & Wife in the coach, the great aluminum-covered projectile shot along the rails from Hamburg to Berlin at an average speed of 106 in. p. h., better than the schedule of Luft Hansa planes. On part of the run it hit 143 m. p. h., a rail record...
Died. Mrs. Natalie Harris Hammond. 70, wife of Mining Engineer John Hays Hammond, mother of Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard and Capitalist Harris Hammond; of inflammation of the brain; in Washington. Friend of royalty, diplomatic hostess (her husband was U. S. Special Ambassador to the coronation of King George V in 1911), she was with Engineer Hammond in South Africa. She fought for his freedom when, after Jameson's Raid, he was condemned to death by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic...
Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the harvester, founder of an immense fortune, grandfather of the groom. He was 47 years dead...