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...sandy, sun-scorched Yucatán, men had no eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
...course the Russians, though soothed by the fact that all of Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across the Porkkala Peninsula (leased to Russia for 50 years as a naval base), which would cut three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased area...
...fire turned inland and fanned out across the narrow peninsula. Offshore, watchers saw soft. flames above the treetops. On land, hundreds of begrimed and weary men fought the fire. In its first six days, the fire (one of more than 50 burning in Canada last week) blackened more than 20 square miles of forest. It was already one of the worst forest fires in Nova Scotia's history. At week's end, veteran rangers despondently thought that only a 48-hour downpour would stop...
Since 1919, Real Estate Man Samuel F. B. Morse,* often called the "Duke of Monterey," has tried to create something almost as exclusive with his famed Del Monte Properties Co. on California's cypress-clad, ocean-girt Monterey Peninsula. He has sold parcels of the 14,000 beautiful acres (at as high as $50,000 an acre), but has always reserved the right to tell the owners what to do with their land. He excludes Negroes, Asiatics and former "subjects of the Ottoman Empire." Once in, purchasers cannot build a house or fence, cut or plant a tree, keep...
...been captain of the Yale '07 football team, he would not have met Templeton Crocker (Yale '08), who introduced him to his grandfather, California Banker William H. Crocker. Young Sam was hired to liquidate Crocker's corporate catchall which owned, among other things, the Monterey Peninsula. While liquidating it, young Morse formed a San Francisco syndicate which bought the peninsula for more than...