Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone

Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone

Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-345-53804-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00


May ended as badly as it began for Wilbur and Orville. On the twenty-ninth of that month, Glenn Curtiss completed the first true cross-country flight in the United States and he did it with the full participation of the nation’s largest newspaper, The New York Times.

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*1 Where Hazel’s judicial qualifications might have been hazy, there were no such questions with Hand. He is generally regarded as one of the preeminent legal theoreticians ever to sit on the American bench and would enjoy a highly distinguished thirty-five-year tenure as a circuit court justice in New York.

*2 Gates was born in Illinois in 1855. He made a fortune selling barbed wire in the dying days of the open range, parlayed that into a bigger fortune in land speculation, then in 1902 struck oil in Texas and founded the company that would become Texaco. Gates’s penchant for wagering enormous sums on horses prompted an English newspaper to refer to him as “Bet-a-Million” Gates, a sobriquet he despised. He had been an early investor in United States Steel and came to know Elbert Gary, who let him in on the Wright Company incorporation.



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