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Show Mile High City 153 conscientious that I believe I am growing a bit stale. This may account for my sense of irritation at Harold. I must remember that I planned to have fun with the children." As if to carry out this vow, she wrote the next day that Harold returned from a hard trip south very dirty and tired. "Now I am going to put on "22 my black nightie. On October 31 she wrote, "This morning I mentioned what seemed a clear, correct idea that if Harold's working over time weren't held over my head as a regular probability, I could unfold my wings more easily. Harold didn't understand and I wished I had not spoken. But we were amiable I shouldn't of these to reform Harold. He will get spells trying always be the same, and I love him'?" A week later, in a Fast Day Sunday service of their ward Madelyn arose "to say in a quivering voice that I was grateful for my friends in Denver. '?24 "But somehow my desire to have everything perfect and get everything done .... gets in my way. "25 IV The most creative years of Harold Silver's life began in 1938. During the next few years he helped organize the Manufac turers Association of Colorado (later called the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry) and served as its presi dent for the first two years; conceived and developed the beet sugar diffuser, still used around the world; took major contracts to build ships for the U.S. Navy; and invented the continuous coal mining machine. The last was of such import that it placed him in the compa ny of inventors like Robert Fulton, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Cyrus Hall McCormick, and prompted Time-Life editors, in their book Machines, to rank him as one of the great inventors of all time. Madelyn, in better health than in 1935-36, adjusted to her husband's growing importance in the world of industry and his succession of preoccupations with new inventions and new business challenges. He continued to be late for supper, to be absent long hours, and to be absorbed in machines and ways of making them more serviceable to mankind. Harold took her on |
