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...property is valued at $29,000,000. One of the biggest shareholders in the company is the Imperial Japanese Government, which owns 36.7% of the stock and is aggressively developing the island's industries. Hence when last week Taiwan sold $22,800,000 worth of bonds each one bore the guaranty of the Japanese Government that interest would be paid, maturity...
...long time Daisy got along well with her husband, bore him three sons. She got along well with almost everybody; everywhere men took to her kindly. On a visit to India she went roller-skating, fell, had to be bandaged up and put to bed. A Maharajah called to pay his respects. Because of Daisy's bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances...
...estate. He fell in love with the place at sight, though it had fallen into wrack & ruin. Its restoration became his career. When he and his neighbor's daughter Alethea fell in love everybody except one disappointed suitor thought it was splendid. For a time everything went swimmingly. Alethea bore Nicholas a bouncing daughter, later a boy. When the boy turned out to be perfectly formed but a dwarf Nicholas refused to see him, hated to have him around...
Recently at a Soviet banquet British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey noticed with a start that his fork bore the coat of arms of Great Britain, had presumably been stolen from the pre-Revolution British Embassy at Petrograd (TIME...
...ancient sites. Before he started his big job at Troy, divorced, he wanted to marry an appropriate Greek wife. He wrote to a friendly Greek archbishop to get him one. Her name was Sophia; she turned out to be not only beautiful but a great help. The children she bore him he insisted on calling Andromache and Agamemnon...