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Thirty years ago Michael Owens, glassblower, revolutionized the glass business by inventing a machine that was a substitute for human lungs in bottle making. Out of his invention grew the great Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo. Four years ago a merger made Owens Bottle into Owens-Illinois Glass Co., biggest...
There was a time when Henry Ford was apparently intent on doing every kind of business incidental to the manufacture of automobiles. He provided himself with his own steel mills, his own glass works, his own credit corporation for financing retail sales, even his own railroad (the Detroit, Toledo and...
¶ A vertical current rammed the ship down. . . . Suddenly speeded engines pulled her tail lower. ... A green helmsman at the elevator controls let her nose rise too high, causing a stall. . . . Jammed elevators. . . . Damaged stabilizer. . . . Broken gas cells. . . .
At that time the face of Carbon Mountain was a sheer cliff. Rock near the crest of the cliff, with slight forewarnings, cracked off, crumpled and crashed 150 ft. to the valley floor. Carbon's vertical face thus became a slope.
Pilot Kinney swung his plane into a wide counterclockwise turn, simultaneously switched his radio to a different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was...