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...First Working Partner, Thomas Bat'a, has been the victim of a terrible disaster. Despite heavy mist he decided to fly to Switzerland in the interest of the concern, which was dearer to him than life. We lose him at a moment when he had succeeded in relaying the foundations of our security and prosperity, and all must honor his memory by devotion to the work that was his life's ideal...
...said at first that Thomas Bat'a's private plane had collided with a chimney of his plant, but when the mist cleared the chimney was seen to be unscarred. Some other cause produced the crash, the muffled explosion, the sudden burst of flame amid which died both Thomas Bat'a and an ace pilot who had flown him successfully around the whole of India...
...because you travel in wheelbarrows, while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start. Finally at 6:30 a. m. Bat'a said, "We must start...
...already flown more than 20,000 miles, was more than willing to take what seemed to him the smallest of chances. The plane's engine roared. It thundered across the perfectly smooth Bat'a Airfield, be gan to climb, disappeared into the mist...
...three such fevers run their course is the book's story. Good luck with cod, phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older...