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...their explosives factory; San Cesario's 1,500 citizens live on lower ground, where the uncertain waters of the Panaro River often overflow into the vineyards and the groves of apple and cherry trees. But San Cesario has what Spilamberto wants: a small bronze cannon with a broken breech. Last week, Spilamberto was suing San Cesario for the cannon...
...received a hero's welcome: a supper of lasagna, tortellini, young kid, pork and chicken, topped off by a demijohn of wine. Next day, he loaded the cannon with a double charge of powder, and fired it in the direction of Spilamberto. Unfortunately, the heavy charge split the breech...
...sacred rivers join-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna, and the Saraswati, which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come for the religious festival of Ardh Kumbh Mela, to revel and to bathe where the sacred rivers...
Straighten a Muddle. When Ernest R. Breech became the executive vice president of Ford in 1946-and began straightening out its muddled accounting system -he looked hard at the tractor deal. The tractors, said he, were costing Ford more to make than Ferguson paid for them. So Breech ended the contract, as of June 30. Ernie Breech also had a personal interest in tractors. Henry II had lured high-priced men like Breech into the company by giving them stock in a new farm-equipment company, the Dearborn Motors Corp. Thus the personal fortunes of the top Ford officials depended...
...years, the Ford Motor Co. has by tradition been closemouthed about its profits & losses. Last week, before the Jefferson City, Mo. Chamber of Commerce, Ford's executive vice president, Ernest Robert Breech, broke with tradition. He announced that Ford's loss for the first nine months of 1946 was a whopping $51,600,000 (if this figure still stands at year's end, tax rebates would cut this down to $32,900,000). Reasons: wage increases, shortages, suppliers' strikes...