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...rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet and his lady was the heatless, lightless. waterless hunting lodge, and even that had been rented out for weekends. Sir Adrian went back to London and bivouacked in a railway waiting room. His money running out, he got to thinking of the cheap London district he was raised in, before he had dreams of nobility. He put an ad in the paper: "Man of title, but lacking means, seeks respectable furnished accommodation (two rooms) in East Ham for self and wife...
...them more favorable annual profit-remittance rates than the recently enacted 8% limit, are so far hesitant to close deals. But some have already struck their bargains. One major chemical firm has signed an agreement to put from $20 to $30 million into Argentine mining and chemical enterprises. Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co. has signed with an Argentine firm to put up a $20 million factory for making rolling stock...
DIESELIZATION of U.S. railroads continues apace. Latest convert: the Virginian Railway, one of the biggest still using coal-burning locomotives. It wants to buy 25 big diesel engines, will use them for freight and mine-switching service in the West Virginia coal fields...
...there" today, India's generals are quietly mustering the bulk of the Indian army in a great line of camps that ranges, arclike, from Assam to Kashmir. Travelers report that Indian "militia" are everywhere, maneuvering in the field, crowding trucks on dusty mountain paths, riding the narrow-gauge railway that puffs up to the resort town of Darjeeling...
Stevens fished and hunted in the country near Moscow, drank gallons of vodka with casual acquaintances in bars, restaurants and railway compartments, observed the healthy good looks of Russian women, admired the drama at the Moscow Art Theater and the ballet at the Bolshoi, gave freely to beggars, noted the remnants of deep religious faith. In the end, he came to the conclusion that the Russians are a good, warmhearted, admirable people who "deserve much better than they receive." When he left, realizing his chances were slight of ever seeing Russia again, "a sort of sadness and depression . . . settled over...