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Hetty Green could pinch a penny till it begged for mercy. Green’s legendary stinginess and dour demeanor earned her the sobriquet “Witch of Wall Street,” but her business smarts put her on par with the craftiest financial wizards of the Gilded Age and made her the richest woman in the world. She used a simple …
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Book Review: Hap Arnold, by Bill YenneHap Arnold: The General Who Invented the U.S. Air Force by Bill Yenne, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2013, $29.95 One of few men to achieve the rank of five-star general, H… Read MoreBook Review: So I Bought an AirforceSo I Bought An Airforce: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza’s Nicaragua by W.W. Martin, Two Harbors Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 2013, $16.95 This is a book hard-worki… Read MoreBook Review: No Parachute, by Arthur Gould LeeNo Parachute by Arthur Gould Lee Few people had the privilege of recording their feelings about World War I air combat in personal letters home, and of those, fewer still survived.… Read MoreDaily Quiz for March 8, 2017Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, saw her writing first published at this age.
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… Read MoreBook Review: X-15, by John AndersonX-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age by John Anderson and Richard Passman, Zenith Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 2014, $30 Like the X-15 i… Read More
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