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Spawning Inventions. All of the Coopers and Hewitts were inventors. They spawned ideas like salmon. Each had his pet idea, like a spoiled child, which he labored over more & more as it failed to work out, and which he grew more & more fond of as the other successful ideas raced on to practical accomplishment while the failure stayed in the laboratory. Old Peter Cooper's pet was a continuous chain drive for boats. He planned an endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit...
Meatless. In Washington, the War Food Administration made out its usual paychecks to Employes Mary Bean, George Fruit, Maybert Corn, Samuel G. Salmon, Esther Olive, William Meal and Fairfax Oyster. Mr. Oyster is an expert on peanuts...
...half hour after the first planes roared overhead, the whole town seemed ablaze. The overhanging clouds turned salmon pink underneath. Apprehension gave way to fear. The crackle of flames, the hiss of water on molten girders, the incessant clang of firebells provided a sullen noisy backdrop for the whurrump of cascading bombs. Incendiary bombs cracked against walls in a blinding bluish white flash...
Lieutenant W. J. Salmon, who assumed duties as officer-in-charge of the midship men-officer group in middle September, has had over nine years active duty is the Navy. Salmon was graduated is 1938 from the Naval Academy and was first attached to the Battleship Pennsylvania (1) where he served until the summer...
...Salmon's next duty station was aboard the light cruiser USS Detroit (3) where he served until assigned to the NSCS as an instructor in Supply in March of this year. Lieutenant Salmon has seen considerable action, including participation in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The lies tenant is married and has a daughter aged...