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Show Weight of the Hole. "The heaviest hole In my experience was one that weighed 432 pounds." said John D. Rockefeller. He smiled faintly and resumed: - "I happened on this hole in my younger young-er days, when I was in the refining business in a small way in Hartford. I had ordered two castings, each thlrty-slx thlrty-slx Inches square and ten inches thick, the first casting to be solid, and the second sec-ond to have a perforation about twenty. Inches in diameter through its middle. Well, the foundry clerk, through some sort of an error, billed both castings to me as though they were solid, ami. when I pointed out his mistake, sent me a credit slip. He had evidently, according accord-ing to this slip, taken the dimensions of the hole in the second casting 10 by 20t by 20 Inches and calculated what .tgr weight of a piece of Iron of those dimensions dimen-sions would be. Then that weight, 4S3 pounds, he had put down as the weight of the hole, and the credit slip he sent read: "J. I. Rockefeller, Cr. "By 1 hole, weight 432 lbs., at 6c. . 421.69 "And that was the heaviest hole I have ever known." New York Tribune, |