But not even headlines or the bitter smear of newsprint or the choke of smokescreen and gas or chatter of brokers on the stockmarket or barking of phantom millions or oratory of brasshats laying wreaths on new monuments
Can blur the memory
Of the chilly December day
Two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, OH
first felt their homemade contraption
whittled out of hickory sticks
gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement
stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing-machine in their own backyard on Hawthord Street in Dayton, OH

Soar into the air
Above the dunes and the wide beach
At Kitty Hawk

- From John Dos Passos, The Big Money