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Keeshin's tough-as-nails President John Louis Keeshin started out (in 1913) with one horse and wagon, wound up (in 1936) as the No. 1 U.S. trucker. By that time Jack Keeshin had the potent help of John Hertz, Lehman Bros, partner and Yellow Cab Co. founder, and of Hertz's tough right-hand man Daniel G. Arnstein (who later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both...
...grandfather Robert Taylor built the first house in Columbus, Ohio, enterprise was not some thing people argued about. They had it, or they didn't. Robert Taylor had it. His wife Mehitabel and their children - five of the eleven were less than twelve years old - followed him by wagon. Mehitabel drove the wagon. Before she left New York she made the maiden trip up the Hudson on Fulton's Clermont. When she reached the Ohio wilderness the first thing she told Robert was of the wonders of the first commercial steamboat...
...Aztecs and Incas all played a similar instrument. Its introduction to Western civilization dates from the late 19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna in the '90s. The very finest ocarinas were manufactured from the mud of the beautiful blue Danube...
...Germany will be up to Russia alone. The point is not that Russia is unequal to the task. Russia has been on the offensive and it is Hitler who now has his back to the wall. The "Help Poor Russia" cry will soon change to "Jump On The Band Wagon Before It Is Too Late." If we fail to pitch in now Russian diplomacy will dominate the peace table...
Paternalism. In Kansas City, Police Chief Harold Anderson campaigned for a ground-hugging patrol wagon so that drunks could be lifted in with less effort...