title: On the Wing of Speed: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown
author: Donald Phillips
description: Best-selling author <b>Donald T. Phillips</b> is renowned for his ability to tell stories and bring history to life. His trilogy on American leadership (<i>The Founding Fathers on Leadership</i>, <i>Lincoln on Leadership</i>, and <i>Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership</i>) has won worldwide acclaim.
zlib_text: Destroyer 101: Bidding War --------------------------------------------
  
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  Destroyer 101: Bidding War
  
  By Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
  
  Chapter 1
  
  For Dr. Harold W Smith, the tension began building when his battered station
  wagon approached the span of the Triborough Bridge.
  
  It began as a knot in his acidy stomach that tightened with each rattle of the
  bridge deck plates. He popped an antacid tablet dry, let it settle, then
  popped two more.
  
  Smith hated Manhattan traffic. But the lateafternoon congestion was the least
  of his concerns. When he eased off the foot of the bridge and rolled into
  Spanish Harlem, he began to feel queasy. The lemony expression on his pinched
  and patrician face soured even more than normal.
  
  He shot up East 125th Street and turned left onto Malcolm X Boulevard. He was
  in Harlem now. It had been a year since he had last been to Harlem, when he
  had nearly lost his life.
  
  During World War II, Harold Smith had operat