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1944
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JANUARY 13TH, 1944 FLIGHT Advertisements. 19 -4 He found a new way All through the early '40's the covered wagons crawled their painful way across the harsh, pitiless desert. Most of them got through. Not all. Here and there along the scorched trail the little crude crosses told their story. " Dave Slesser is buried here; 14 years old." In 1847 Nathaniel Slocum with his wife, his mother (then aged 61), and four children from oneto fifteen years in age, swung his team out of the line, off the bitter waterless track and headed for the hills. His friends argued with him. " You'll lose them all Nat!" "Martha's dying right now" he said. "I'm making for good air and water. If we don't find it we'll die together " Over two months later his wagon rolled with all his family safely into Santa Fe. He had a great tale for the astonished settlers—a new route, winding and high, tough going in places, but new, possible and, above all, with abundant water all the way. After 1847 there were no fresh graves along the desert trail It was a route no longer. Custom and habit, fear of the unknown; these are the things that keep us to the ' beaten track ' even when the track is hard and bad. And that is as true in the processes of industry as ever it was on the Western trails. Simmonds service to Industry is that we try to^break away from the ' beaten' track wherever and whenever there is hope or need of a ' better way \ Simmonds Aerocessories Limited, Great West Road, London • MELBOURNE • MONTREAL • PARIS • NEW YORK • LOS ANGELES THE SIMMONDS NUT • PINNACLE NUT • SPIRE NUT SIMMONDS INSTRUMENTS, CONTROLS & ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS • FRAM OIL & ENGINE CLEANER C R. Casson i. S I M M O * New and Better N D S Ways * V
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