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...spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer of a job with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, it was with misgiving. Akron was so far inland...
...Meknes, in inland Morocco, a bored French sergeant marched a platoon through the white deserted streets before dawn one day last week, posted his men at strategic street corners. The men lit cigarets and waited...
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...sportsman and promoter who had handled the refuelling plane for that endurance flight. Practiced in the tricks of refuelling in midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into the air for a straight dash across the ocean. Instead they would take off light, fly inland to Alaska, take fuel over Fairbanks from a nurse ship, let the nurse fly with them across Bering Strait and suckle them once more. Then the refuel plane would turn back and the full-bellied Fort Worth would fly down the Siberian coast to Japan to claim...
Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...