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First steam locomotive to run on any U. S. railroad was Delaware & Hudson's British-bought Stourbridge Lion, On Aug. 8, 1829,* the spindly monster, threatening to come apart at every trembling trestle, chugged some two miles along D. & H.'s Honesdale, Pa.-Carbondale line. D. & H. abandoned this line...
...machine tool industry-which makes the machines with which other industries make goods-is no monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more...
...Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Boulder Dam, New York's subways, many U. S. railroads, were built with Marion shovels (now no longer steam, but electric & Diesel driven). Monster of the Marion line is a $450,000 strip coal mining shovel, which can scoop up 50 tons of earth, dump it on top of a seven-story building 226 feet away...
...speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
...battered Gladstone bag stuffed full of the relics of Empire-pieces of prejudices, bits of old patriotic songs (music hall comedians used to call him "Winnie"), mementoes of old Imperial wild oats, mistakes, idyllic weekends better forgotten. Jaunty, witty, informed, expert, positive, a sparkling talker when interested, a growling monster of rudeness when bored, he said in 1939 what he had said in 1903, and knew he said it better. An unabashed lover of the sound of his own voice, talking to himself very loudly when alone, he was never really popular. Moreover, as the years passed, a mighty collection...