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Show 190 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER tower; and then back to Paris, where they saw the Trocadero, Eiffel Tower, and Place des Invalides, and then on to London. In three days they visited the old Mormon British Mission headquarters at Islington, 36 Penton Street, where her father had gone as a missionary; Trafalgar Square; Buckingham Palace; Big Ben; and then boarded the Queen Elizabeth for their return trip to the United States. Fellow passengers on the liner were Winston Churchill and his daughter and her husband. They docked at New York, took the plane to Chicago and back to the City of Denver to "home." The delight of the trip for Madelyn was the visit in the Holy Land. She had taught so many lessons on the Bible and had been so involved with the story and teachings of Jesus, that she was spiritually moved by their stay in Palestine. Because of its importance to Madelyn there follows a separate chapter on their tour of the Holy Land. Upon their return, once more they were invited to speak to schools, church and civic groups, and private clubs on the effec tiveness of the European Recovery Program, the life of peasants and city people, and, above all, for Madelyn, on her impressions of the Holy Land. Shortly after their return from their 1948 tour of Europe, articles began to appear in papers and national magazines about Harold's continuous coal miner which he invented in the early 1940s and which had been in covert operation since 1946. The machine, which was about six feet wide and twenty-five feet long, was mounted on caterpillar treads or crawlers, was com had pletely mobile, and did not require a track. In 1947 Harold with entered into an agreement Joy Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh to produce and sell his invention in return for royal ties. The machine streamlined coal mining to an uninterrupted of coal more cost effective, and process, making the mining hazards. The mobile robot miner other eliminating blasting and moved up to the mine face, shattered the coal, loaded it, and moved it to trackless shuttle cars, which then started the coal on machine ren its trip to the surface. By eliminating blastings the and more infinitely safer. productive mining dered underground machine was open for inspection by By the end of 1948 the |
