Word: lindon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Fannies married. Fanny Keats, five years after her brother's death, was first. She married a Spaniard, one Valentine Llanos, settled in Spain. Fanny Brawne followed suit when she was 33 and her grief for John was 12 years old. As Mrs. Louis Lindon she became the mother of three, a tranquil matron; she lived to a ripe...
...interest to students of archeology and ancient history are several paintings of reliefs from Xerxe's 100 column hall and other scenes on the Persepolis terrace done in the style of Joseph Lindon Smith. Some pencil sketches done in Iran and snow scenes in the Himalayas complete the collection...
...when German submarines were sinking U. S. oil tankers, oil was precious. One of the jobs of the Engineering Commission of Submarine Defense was to make oil go further. Its chairman, Lindon Wallace Bates, with the backing of the late Cameraman George Eastman, finally stabilized a 50% mixture of coal dust in oil. The U. S. S. Gem tested it successfully. After the War, Inventor Bates learned that two Germans had invented a similar fuel in 1914. He bought up their patents, developed his fuel still further...
...Greenpoint fire. His English contracts were broken. Litigation dragged on until 1929. In 1924 Bates had died in France of a paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents, 20 in the U. S., 15 in Canada, including the basic Plauson-Schroeder patent, now belong to another son, Lindell Theodore Bates, Manhattan lawyer. The foreign patents have lapsed...