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Central Europeans are fond of making comparisons between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. One goes like this: a delegation of U.S. trade unionists visiting Moscow is taken to a huge factory. One car stands outside the building. An American asks: "Whose is this plant?" "It belongs to the workers." "And whose is this car?" "The car belongs to the director." Later on, some Russian unionists return the visit. Their American colleagues take them to Detroit. They stop before a huge factory building where several thousand cars are lined up. A Russian asks: "Whose factory is this?" "It is Ford...
High weights he had to carry and high taxes his owner had to pay (as much as 80% of the purses) cut Shannon down to three or four select races a year. Riddle became so fond of him that he turned down offer after offer for the horse. Last year, after Peter Riddle's death, all Australia listened in by radio as Shannon was once again led into the auction ring...
...white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors. He owned a 36-acre farm, drove a flashy 1948 Frazer sedan. He made frequent trips North and was fond of calling himself "Mister Robert Mallard...
Dreadful Spew. The Portland was a 291-ft. side-wheeler, trim with white and gold paint, and to Boston's fond eye, as slick as a schoolmarm's leg. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm warnings, the skipper decided he could make Portland ahead of the blow. Shortly after dark, with 176 people aboard, he cast off. The Portland disappeared down the channel into a swirl of snow...
...exhilarating and heady experience for Dave Beck, a man who is fond of recalling that he had come up a hard and rocky road. He was born in Stockton, Calif, in 1894. His father, a Tennessee-born carpet cleaner named Lemuel Beck, brought his family to Seattle four years later, seeking a handhold on the better life. Lemuel Beck never found it. As his growing son soon discovered, he was the "world's worst businessman...