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Peter Pallotta

Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2007, 03:25:17 PM »
"Tree stumps and rock outcroppings..."

JES - thanks, and I believe you. But that doesn't sound very  
"Napoleonic," does it?  It doesn't even sound like much of a "construction scheme"... it sounds like a bit of house-cleaning (edit: just to say, my guess is that writer in 1912 was overstating his case...)

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Tommy Williamsen

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2007, 03:27:07 PM »
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Dan Kelly

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2007, 03:33:25 PM »
www.tinyurl.com: the home of better links -- favored by better men everywhere! ;)

A very useful Web site.
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JESII

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2007, 04:05:31 PM »
Peter,

I'd think you are likely correct...although...

dynamite       is to        ?what?

the same way

The Horse and plow is to the huge machines used to build golf courses today
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Scott_Burroughs

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #29 on: March 21, 2007, 04:12:13 PM »
Quote from: Dan Kelly on March 21, 2007, 03:33:25 PM
www.tinyurl.com: the home of better links -- favored by better men everywhere! ;)

A very useful Web site.

On GCA, tinyurl is one way to post links that break up through direct post, but not necessary at all.

This link is even 'tinier' to the same article without using external help.  Basically as easy as posting pics.

Guess I could add:  "the home of the best links - favored by the best...." oh, never mind.  ;) ;D ::)
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Peter Pallotta

Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #30 on: March 21, 2007, 04:24:10 PM »
JES
if I've understood you right, the discussion that follows here might be along the lines of "we thought he didn't move any dirt, but he may have moved more dirt than we thought"?

If so, I don't know how productive that discussion will be. Then and now, that seems a bit like missing the forest for the trees....but without the forest or the trees

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JESII

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2007, 04:35:19 PM »
Peter,


Not at all.

My thought was more along the lines of...dynamite was the most destructive and disrupting tool yet used in golf course construction (95 years ago), what would be it's equivalent considering the size ond power of the tools used today?[/i]



Whatever tool it is, if it were used it may well generate the same feelings Mr. Leach had in 1912.
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Peter Pallotta

Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #32 on: March 21, 2007, 04:48:55 PM »
Sorry, JES, of course that was your point. (I read your "?" wrong).

Yes, whatever today's relative equivalent to dynamite is would engender the same sentiments as Leach's...especially because whatever it is would be used for much more Napoleonic purposes, I'd imagine...

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JESII

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #33 on: March 21, 2007, 04:55:31 PM »
Very true...
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Dan Kelly

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Re:"The man who is blowing up America"
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2007, 05:04:17 PM »
This, I thought, was the most interesting paragraph in the piece:

"Ross loved nearly all things mechanical, from sophisticated automobiles to mundane household products. He was especially excited over the invention of an electric iron that turned itself off to prevent fires. The only contraption he wanted no part of was the airplane. Even after commercial flights became routine, he refused to fly and would pass along every report of a plane crash to his daughter."

I wonder if he sent his plans via Air Mail.
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