Excerpt from The Link: July, 1970 America-not Only for putting a man on the moon, but for almost two hundred years Of contributing to the betterment Of mankind. For the airplane, radio, cotton gin, phonograph, elevator, movie machine, typewriter, polio vaccine, safety razor, ballpoint pen, and zipper! NO other land in all the world has, in SO brief a history, contributed SO much and asked SO little - only that we live together in peace and freedom. From the days Of Washington and Lincoln, you have demonstrated the creativity, invention, and progress Of free men' living in a free society where ideas and aspirations may be promoted to the extent Of a man's willingness to Work and build a better mousetrap with commensurate rewards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.