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Military campaigns would have ended differently. George Washington, surveying his ragged forces at Valley Forge, would have surrendered. So would Winston Churchill in the early days of 1941. The march of industrial technology would have zigzagged. Thomas Alva Edison, after spending $40,000 to test umpteen hundred possible filaments for an electric light, would have shrugged and said, "I give up. Nobody will ever figure this...
...need only open the book's cover to become immersed in this early America. The two pages consist of a collage made from period New York Times clippings. Advertisements for 1912 roadsters, electrical engineer training courses endorsed by Thomas Edison, and a notice that Macy's Department Store will be moving to Herald Square accompany notice of a Washington Senators victory. Rube Marquard and Smokey Joe Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw...
...school which serve 585,000 patients a year and consistently come up with awesome medical breakthroughs. Moreover, if MATEP is allowed to start up its six 9000-horsepower diesel engines, it can begin offering the seven hospitals and other clients electricity 30 to 35 percent more cheaply than Boston Edison...
...year legal nightmare, MATEP has been forced to install four elaborate air monitors in Boston and Brookline which report back to the Brookline Ave, plant. If at any time the NO, level were found to be over the state's limit, MATEP would shut down, cut over to Boston Edison power, and wait for the carcinogens to disperse...
...refer to people who live in health clubs or on roller skates, or to the hotly cultivated yuppies who have come to mean so much to themselves. The "rugged" saves "rugged individualism" from shabbiness by implying not merely solitary but courageous action. Look. Here comes America. Davy Crockett, Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford. Those fellows built a nation with their hands...