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...instead of sinking all their World War II profits in new land, farmers were using it to pay off mortgages on the old. Now, almost half of U.S. farmers own their land outright and mortgages on the rest are down to $5.5 billion, half the peak of the '20s...
...prospect of opening up the north land had long been tempting. Twice in the '20s and early '30s get-rich-quick speculators started rushes to neighboring Labrador in a fools' search for gold. Then, along the border between Ungava and Labrador, more serious prospectors uncovered an iron belt which looked like one of the biggest in the world...
...leader's first wife was a village bride selected for him when he was 14, and subsequently disregarded. No. 2 was a professor's daughter, devoted Yang Kai-hui, mother of Mao's Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation, ex-Wife...
Michael Arlen (old name: Dikran Kouyoumdjian), who bounded to fame & fortune in the early '20s with his best-dressed tales of smartly ruined women and ruinous men (The Green Hat, May Fair), and who then relaxed into well-cushioned obscurity, decided that the best was yet to be. A man's 40s and 50s are his best years, he declared, "because he knows what...
Back in the '20s, he mushed off on North Pole expeditions (he is called "Ange-kok," Miracle Worker, by the Eskimos); searched for pirates' gold on a Pacific island; sleuthed for old bones around Lake Superior; flew his own glider; raced his bouncing outboard down the Hudson; mined gold in Mexico. In his spare time, aboard his 185-ft. yacht, Mizpah, he held parties that rattled Chicago tongues...