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...plans for building a rail mill and a new railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells of Pennsylvania combined. It remade the oil business. Unable...
...Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...
What makes these happenings arresting are those sharp if superficial perceptions of personality which are the salt of Author Stong's books. Before Grandpa Storr speaks a word you find out exactly what sort of person he is by the way he picks up a dish of cold breakfast cereal, carries it out into the yard, dumps it contemptuously into the henyard. Louise falls in love with Guy at a village dance while Simon the hired man (Stuart Erwin) is getting drunk on corn whiskey. For a genre incident-of the kind which have made Stong contributions unique...
...transport system, to think in terms of trade routes, to call his airplanes "clippers," to have at his desk corner an enormous mariner's globe-not of much use since it is an antique and lacks the names of many places on P. A. A.'s lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer of the U. S. S. Vixen, got a Congressional Medal and a gold sword for battling the Barbary pirates...
Boston, however, really does have an impressive little handful of inexpensive things to do that even Bostonians don't know about. Her first summer attraction is, of course, salt water, and this means the harbor. Few people know that there is a chance to take part in the harbor life every Tuesday and Friday morning from the first of June through September, when the launch of the Seaman's Friend Society makes the rounds of the harbor ships and heaves packages of magazines and books aboard each. The launch leaves from a float under the Chariestown end of the Charlestown...