Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speedboat bore down on the distressed craft, the conning tower was roped and the sub towed ashore. This week Inventor Connett plans a submerged trip from Chicago to Michigan City or Waukegan...
...falsetto sequel to the Squalus and Thetis tragedies occurred last week on Lake Michigan. Just off Chicago's Jackson Park, a submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso...
...pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before I have to bail...
...counselor to the 54th Governor of Michigan is God. In his office every morning the Governor prays for five minutes (see cut). Prayer, he says, brought him Boyles & Moyer, helped him choose many another political appointee. ("We were looking for a man to fill a certain State office. Suddenly the name . . . was made clear to me. I mentioned it. My legal aide, Emerson R. Boyles, said to me: 'You have a pipeline.' 'Yes,' I said, 'I have a pipeline...
Soberest group of alumni were 150 who were to attend the alumni school at University of Michigan, established a year after Lafayette's. Michigan's alumni were to put in a full week (taking up to five courses of four lectures each), paid $10 tuition. Most popular course: National and International Relations. Also popular: golf instruction by University coaches...