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...study mechanical engineering and soon after to drive racing cars. In 1913, aged 18, it took him but two months to earn his pilot's certificate. Since the War he has stayed in civil aviation continuously-except for the eight-day honorary term as mayor of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe, his birthplace in the Vosges. The Motives. Captain Fonck came to the U. S. last year for the Pulitzer air races. Hearing that Engineer Igor Sikorsky was building monster trimotored planes on Long Island for long-distance flights, it occurred to him to inquire about a trans-Atlantic flight, primarily...
...milk has been an arduous task for physicians. They have been at their wit's end for substitutes. Wet nurses will not always do, sometimes because they are unavailable, more often because they may suffer from contagious diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food" and wanted to substitute for it bread boiled in beer and honey...
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...with which it will be received. This is true, in the nature of things, because the great general public is reached only with the sentimental features surrounding the transactions involved, and being largely in the dark as to all the other multitudes of circumstances with which the case is sur rounded, and knowing perhaps less of the great legal principles which the experience of the ages has taught man kind must control in dealing with the rights of persons and property...
...outstanding figure of the Chicago banking fraternity. Stricken at his desk with heart disease, he was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where a transfusion of his son's blood (James B. Forgan, Jr.) rallied him momentarily but was ultimately unsuccessful in saving his life. He died sur rounded by his family, after singing favorite hymns with his pastor and saying : "I have put up the best fight I could." Forgan is one of the old names in St. Andrews, Scotland. James Berwick Forgan was born there, one of six chil dren of Robert Forgan, maker of golf clubs...