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...healthy, beautifying drinks in America, and you wilfully prevent men from making proper use of the most glorious and beautiful produce of God's earth, namely, the vine. You could produce in America champagne which would be superior, to the best in Rhine, Burgundy better than that of Macon and of Bordeaux the best in the world. And yet you let yourselves be bullied and bulldozed by cranks and faddists and narrow-minded bigots. . . . I have ordered my bankers (Barclay's Bank, Aldershot) to send you five dollars. And I beg of you to accept my sincere apologies...
...giant wireless masts rise out of a sea of scrub oak, a baldheaded, wizened little Negro with God on his mind. He opened a free employment agency, found many a job for black men and white. Two years later he bought a small frame house at No. 72 Macon St., took in the homeless, fed them, clothed them, black & white. His disciples increased, his house grew, followers came on foot, in limousines, by the busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding parking for more than 30 minutes in Macon Street. Rev. Major J. Divine, the bald...
...last winter Heaven had grown too noisy for Sayville. Residents began to move from Macon Street. The village police force grew weary directing traffic, answering complaints against women who shrieked: "Peace! Peace! Oooooh, ain't it wonderful!" Nevertheless, Preacher Divine continued to feed & clothe a hundred-odd people, to serve six meals a day, each meal enormous. On his wall hung two signs. One said: "PEACE. CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND INTOXICATING LIQUORS NOT ALLOWED. IT'S WONDERFUL." The other: "NOTICE. VISITORS AND CALLERS NOT ALLOWED UPSTAIRS...
Unless the Macon is enlarged it will yield to the LZ-129 now abuilding in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as "world's biggest." To house this huge ship, specifically designed for the commercial purposes of Dr. Hugo Eckener, two hangars were thrown together. Replete with comforts for 52 passengers, the LZ-129 will next year go into regular service on the South American run. Unlike the Graf Zeppelin she will be inflated with non-inflammable helium. But because helium is much more expensive than hydrogen, Dr. Eckener plans to install fireproof hydrogen ballonets inside the helium cells for use in regulating...
...gargantuan hangar of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio continues to reverberate with pounding and riveting as the U. S. S. Macon, second of the Navy's modern dirigibles, slowly takes shape. If present specifications are followed she will be practically identical with her great sister. Like the Akron she will pouch a brood of planes. But, ship-like, she will have a sleeping bag for enlisted men. instead of the Akron's four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded...