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...million barter deal-subject to later approval by the British Board of Trade. Britain would exchange textiles, chemicals and metals in return for Chinese coal, tea, soybeans and peanut oil. Talk of textiles was meant to tantalize the depressed cotton towns of Lancashire, but the whole deal rang a little phony. Obviously what mattered to the Chinese was the other 65% of the deal-the chemicals and the metals. "Our advice to members at present," said the F.B.I. (Federation of British Industries, the British equivalent of the N.A.M.), "is to have nothing to do with...
...early 40's was exciting: "I had to ride back and forth on the train, look for men who were reading scratch sheets, and try to find out from them where the gamblers operated. I followed a heavy bettor to the gaming house, counted how many times he rang the bell, and ten minutes later did the same. After playing craps for a while on the newspaper's money, I left by telling them an ulcer was acting up. But all this isn't unusual. Most reporters do it the same...
When it falters dramatically, With a Song in My Heart manages to give itself a lift musically with such songs as Blue Moon, Tea for Two, Embraceable You, and an Americana medley of eleven tunes, rang ing from California, Here I Come to Deep in the Heart of Texas...
...after curfew, and the last pedestrian had scurried to shelter. A soldier smartly togged in green hurried over, took a quick look at the curfew pass of Imam Bey, Egypt's political police chief, and snapped a salute. Trusted policemen jumped out of the other cars. Imam Bey rang the bell of the darkened house; a servant told him that Serag el Din was across the street at the elaborate villa of Nahas Pasha, onetime fellah and now the aging, feeble chief of the powerful, corruption-ridden Wafd Party. As Minister of the Interior, Serag el Din had been...
Across the street, light filtered through the shutters on the second-floor suite of Madame Nahas, a plump, attractive woman of 40, and great friend and business partner of huge, fleshy Serag el Din. Policeman Imam Bey rang the bell. Serag el Din finally appeared, opened the door. Imam Bey produced a written order: by government decree, Serag el Din was ordered into enforced confinement on the 780-acre estate of his wife (a member of Egypt's biggest landowning family), 36 miles out of Cairo...