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...Toes. In choosing Tientsin for a trial of strength with the West the Japanese cleverly picked one of the foreign zones in China where the U. S. has least interests. In Tientsin there are two U. S. banks, 20 fur exporters, two real estate firms, two woolen mills and some U. S.-owned buildings, but the aggregate investment is computed at only about...
...five times in a row and I'll give you a fur-lined syrup pitcher...
...slopes of the St. Lawrence and on the heights of Quebec, Their Majesties' debarkation point. Scotland Yard men busily spotted cranks and radicals, gave last-minute tips to Dominion constabulary on how to guard their King and Queen. Four royal maroon Royal automobiles, two long (155-inch wheelbase), fur-rugged Buicks, a Chrysler and a Ford, were ready for Their Majesties and one toured Quebec's narrow crooked streets, testing sharp turns. Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham. Kiwanians, Rotarians, Knights of Columbus...
...Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (see cut, p. 63), painted about 1845 by George Caleb Bingham...
...value of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) lies as much in his teeth and his temperament as in his fur. In April, his working season starts. He fells trees with his sharp incisors, dams up a stream with logs, mud, leaves, boughs, increases its depth and area, builds along the water's edge a lodge for his family. He works mostly at night. In November, when the frost sets in, he stops work, seals his home with mud (which soon freezes solid), takes a long rest...