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The difficulty of aiming has been demonstrated upon several occasions at aviation meetings and other similar gatherings. Monsieur Michelin, who has done so much for aviation in France, offered a prize of L1,00 $5,000 in 1912 for bomb-dropping from an aeroplane.
The prizes offered were L500, L200, and L80 $2,500, $1,000 and $400 respectively, and were awarded to those who made the greatest number of hits. The conditions were by no means so onerous as those imposed in the Michelin contest, inasmuch as the altitude limit was set at 660 feet, while no machine was to descend within 165 feet. The first competitor completely failed to hit the balloon.
But Michelin was right, and the old Seigneur, Sir Henri Robitaille, who was a judge of men, knew he was right, as did also Hennepin the schoolmaster, whose despair Jacques had been, for he never worked at his lessons as a boy, and yet he absorbed Latin and mathematics by some sure but unexplainable process.
Europe laughed long at the sang-froid with which Wilbur Wright, having won the Michelin prize of eight hundred pounds, gave no heed to the applause which the assembled throng gave him as the money was transferred to him with a neat presentation speech. Without a word he divided the notes into two packets, handed one to his brother Orville, and thrust the other into his own pocket.
She had pitied him once; he remembered that as he saw how she shrank from him. "Michelin has been more fortunate than I have," he said deliberately. "I beg your pardon." "You seem to be at home here." "I suppose you must follow the bent of your mind." "I suppose I must," he agreed as he stood aside to let her pass. She had defied him that night in Florence. "Never!" she had said.
Madame Michelin, a beautiful blonde; her husband is a carpet manufacturer; I recommend him to you, duchesse. Madame Rénaud, an adorable brunette, with blue eyes and black lashes, and whose husband is . Ma foi! I do not remember exactly " "What M. Michelin is, probably," said Pompadour, laughing.
She asked a score of questions about Gloucester and Chepstow, the Severn and the Romans and the Welsh, and did not wait for the answers. She did not want answers; she talked to keep things going. Her talk masked a certain constraint that came upon her companions after the first morning's greetings were over. Sir Richmond as he had planned upstairs produced two Michelin maps.
The following year saw Cody winning another Michelin prize for a cross-country competition. Here he made a flight of over 200 miles, and his high opinion of the engine may be best described in the letter he wrote to the company, saying: "If you kept the engine supplied from without with petrol and oil, what was within would carry you through". But the pinnacle of Mr.
As he had kept the shutters pulled down over his pre-war career, having in all our intercourse given me no hint of the avocations that had led him to know the Inns of France with the accuracy of a Michelin guide, it was obvious that he had done so for his own good and deliberate reasons.
"Well, the hour is fixed. It will not be changed?" "No, the Prince preferred the early morning, but Michelin has an appointment he must keep with Vandervelde at noon." "Nothing will persuade him to alter it then?" she insisted. "Nothing." "That is well," she said sighing. "Good-bye, M'sieur Gontrand. You you will do your best for Camille." "You may rely on me," he answered.
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