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...worked for six months cleaning toilets in a Pittsburgh steel mill, eventually became chief chemist of American Linseed Co. at $15,000 a year (twice the salary of his boss). In 1912 he left to manage his own company. With but $75 in capital he planked a boiler directly on the Indiana-Illinois State line, could say he was manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license. Now his company has two subsidiaries, turns out a variety of products: compounds to waterproof wooden wagon wheels, oil to keep posters from warping, oils for paints and duplicator inks...
...Chicago an 8 Ib. 5¼ oz. daughter (Caesarean) was born to famed infantile paralysis victim Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr. and Teresa Larkin Snite. Shortly before, Snite came out of the iron lung that has kept him alive for four years, was photographed outside his tank for the first time since his illness (see cut). A chest respirator, concealed under his coat and connected to bellows by a tube, kept him going...
...waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour and 15 minutes later. Casualties: nine dead (one of heart failure); 22 wounded, some by stone fragments...
...Bande Nere promptly fled, but not before being hit. The Colleoni paused long enough to trade salvos with the Sydney. This was fatal. A shell struck into her boiler room, and crippled her so that British destroyers could close in and polish her off with two torpedoes. The destroyers then rescued 545 officers & men who had stripped and jumped overboard. Italian dead & wounded totaled about...
With Big Bill Knudsen of General Motors heading procurement for Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission, no one doubted that General Motors' Allison plant would get plenty of steam in its boiler. To see what could be done about speeding up the main Indianapolis plant, the Army Air Corps sent as its factory representative a famed flier-engineer who was once one of its brightest technical stars. Stubby, go-getting Reserve Major James Harold Doolittle, famed speed pilot and Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering (M. I. T.), was recalled to active duty from civilian life, was glad to answer...