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Tunisia, less than 70 years ago, was a region over which the Turkish Sultans ruled through a viceroy. It went bankrupt, was refinanced by the Great Powers, who installed British, French and Italian "comptrollers." In 1881 a French force invaded Tunisia to chastise the independent Khmir tribes. In the Bardo Palace at Tunis the Turkish viceroy signed over to Paris acknowledgement that Tunisia was a protectorate of France. This protectorate Italy did not "recognize" until 1896, and Turkey did not recognize it until 1920. Italians in 1881, were more numerous in Tunisia than were the French, and if nose-counting...
...speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected bills and a checkbook. By 1935 they had two more plants - in Whippany, N. J. and Durham, Pa. But their first is still their pride...
...work that should be the feminine counterpart of Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Its fatal flaw showed from the start: a reticence as amazing as Proust's and Joyce's candor. Her heroine, Miriam Henderson, is the daughter of a bankrupt upper middle-class family, restless, chauvinistic, anti-American, who leaves home when she is 17, teaches in girls' schools in Germany and London, is a governess, then secretary to a firm of literary dentists, who introduce her to their London intellectual set. When she writes about the way sunlight...
...Some of the guns were without dials because the firm which made them went bankrupt. The guns sent from the practice camps in some cases became separated from their instruments. Further, they were sent into action without overhaul. Some predictors were out of order. Electric storage batteries were in some cases run down, although other units at the same time had spare batteries and charging plants. Certain units did not draw their full complement of stores and some stores were found to be deficient...
...Elected president of RKO to succeed retiring Lawyer Leo Spitz was bulky, greying, onetime film salesman, George Joseph Schaefer, now distribution head of United Artists. First Schaefer job at RKO: steering the bankrupt company through a reorganization plan which the U. S. District Court is expected to approve this week...