Someone Going Home Late [Hardcover]

Daryl Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1990

An entrepreneurial and engineering genius, Leroy Hill left his mark on 20th century aviation. But that was just the beginning. As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous "Liberty Engine" of World War I to fit into the legendary fighter DH-4, or "Flying Coffin." In the late 1920s his passion for aviation brought him to a new marketplace as twelve-year president of Air Associates—that remarkable aviation catalog of everything from plane parts and repairs to whole aircraft. Later, in World War II, he founded the company that manufactured and distributed all the hose-clamps for the popular P-51 Mustang Fighter. A true entrepreneur, Leroy Hill was involved in sixty different companies either designing new technologies or marketing improved versions of the old. Politically, he was a lifelong anti-union activist working in the most unionized industries in the nation. Though he marched lockstep with no one, Hill remained to the end of his life a hardbitten opponent of big government who championed many conservative movements of his day. From Leroy Hill's substantial archives, including his voluminous diaries, author Craig Miner has distilled the heady public and private dynamics of an extraordinary life.

Editorial Reviews

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Absolute
Alloys
Apology
Beach Agates
Carp
A Casualty
Countenance
Day Off
Dolls
Emily Dickinson, Compsing
For W.l.h.
Freight: 1
Freight: 2
Freight: 3
Going On
Grabow At Work
Grabow Buys A New Suit
Grabow Goes Out Jogging With His Son
Grabow's Shaggy Dog Story
Grabow, Signing His Daughter's Report Card, Tells Her...
High Country Resolving To Travel Light
His Wife Down With The Flu, Grabow Goes To The Supermarket
The Horse
The Hotstrip
The Impulse
Joseph Of Nazareth, Bridegroom
Letter To The Editor
Maidenhair
One Reason We Call Ourselves Human
The Passing
Pedigrees
Photograph Of You In Late Evening
Riding It Out On Elk Mountain
Tarzan And The Elephant Burial Ground
Those Chesapeake Blues
The Tiger
Titanic
To A Fieldmouse
Triangulation
Un Bel Di
Waxing The Car In Late Fall
When You Know It Most
The White Tree
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press; First edition. edition (January 15, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896722333
• ISBN-13: 978-0896722330
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,109,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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