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Wild duck, of many breeds, should be hunted, in warm jackets and waterproof boots, near Currituck Sound, N. C., Barnegat Bay, N. J., marshy shores along the Atlantic coast, on long dark lakes in the middle west and in club-blinds along the Great Lakes. In these last, at Sandusky, near Cleveland, President Cleveland used to go hunting...
...crutches it has had to use for the past several years, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the friend and believer who placed Candidate Smith in nomination in 1920, 1924, 1928. With Mrs. Roosevelt, he sat on the outdoor platform, huddled from the rain under a canopy of State Troopers' waterproof coats...
...Story: Harry Rebhan bought (January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, etc. He sold them to all Liggett Drug Stores...
...Idea: A waterproof rain-coat and hat costing...
...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...