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A timber magnate in Seattle named William E. Boeing, bidding low because he built his own airplanes, won the line from Chicago to San Francisco, giving birth to what would become United Airlines.

The most ambitious publishing effort of his career was launched, a work of ten volumes encompassing the entire natural history of the United States. It was his “endeavor to make myself understood by all.”

A breakdown from nervous strain and overwork in 1869 left him incapacitated for nearly a year. Yet the headlong life resumed. The museum building was doubled in size. He embarked on still another venture, around Cape Horn to California with a Coast Survey expedition, and returned this time with some one hundred thousand specimens. And in the final

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.

Pour la première fois, Mermoz sentit l'émotion presque insoutenable des grandes tentatives. Pour la première fois, il se trouvait au seuil d'un acte auquel son visage allait être lié dans la mémoire des hommes. Il grelottait intérieurement Mais il songea au misérable petit avion d'Istres, sur lequel il s'était envolé en ignorant, en aveugle, appuya