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...factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins." The field he picked for conquest was Georgia's excess peach crop, which he planned to quick-freeze and market in the off season. As Depression deepened, how ever, Tom Huston's market for quick-frozen peaches froze almost as quickly as Tom Huston's peaches. By the time he decided to abandon the project, he needed cash...
Tufts comes to Cambridge tonight with a powerful aggregation which has a record of seven victories in eight contests. In their most recent conquest, the Jumbos defeated Technology, who defeated the Harvard quintet by a slim 32-28 margin earlier in the season...
...what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...
...Right extreme, the "British Union of Fascists" whose members he fitted out with black shirts and badges but no anti-Semitic program. Mussolini gave him a black banner. When his able wife died last May stricken Sir Oswald redoubled his efforts, counted Lord Rothermere as his greatest conquest to date...
...state of the world with grim alarm but thinks an open eye better than a buried head. The Europe of 1933. says Simonds. is ''back in the situation and state of mind of July, 1914." After Japan's deliberate flouting of the Kellogg Pact in her conquest of Manchuria, the failure of the Disarmament Conference, the withdrawal of Japan and Germany from the League of Nations, all that was lacking to complete the dark picture was a militaristic Germany. Looking at the causes of the last war, Simonds finds them inevitable: the Allies' European balance...