Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 88
ed rath-er brusquely that when the Government sent the moneythey would get their pay, and not before. He asked howmuch was due them, and wrote a draft for the amount,some $31,000, and received a Government receipt. In afew days he received his $28.60 in back pay just the sameas the others. In 1867…
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