* Arrington, Leonard J., and John R. Alley, Jr. ''Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader.'' 1992. 250 pp. In the 1930s-1960s Silver grew rich by inventing a portable sugar beet piler and a sugar diffuser that sharply lowered costs in the sugar industry; he was even more successful in inventing continuous process coal mining machinery. | * Arrington, Leonard J., and John R. Alley, Jr. ''Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader.'' 1992. 250 pp. In the 1930s-1960s Silver grew rich by inventing a portable sugar beet piler and a sugar diffuser that sharply lowered costs in the sugar industry; he was even more successful in inventing continuous process coal mining machinery. |