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...grey, soggy Midwestern morning last week, a blue & white Jackrabbit bus pulled up in front of the high school in Canton, S. Dak. (pop. 2,500). It was 9:30 a.m., an early hour for a political rally even in this year of virulent campaign fever, but already 500 people were squeezed into the school auditorium. The candidate they were waiting for, a tall man who showed his 62 sedentary years but had a determined look, slipped off the bus with amazing agility. In the bus he left a bulging, battered, yellow leather briefcase with a gold-lettered name almost...
...years, Kitchen King Keating has bought out or organized 16 smaller companies and founded a big subsidiary in Britain. Last week he announced another buy. For $1,254,000, said he, Ekco will acquire the Republic Stamping & Enameling Co. of Canton, Ohio, manufacturer of enameled pots & pans and various refrigerator accessories (1951 sales...
That Boston is really in the center of a saucer ringed by mountains is a fact few Cantabridgians know until they take a trip out to the Blue Hills of Canton. From the observatory on top of Great Blue Hill one can see the entire city, and nearby Houghton's Pond proffers succor to weary hikers. A not-too-juicy snack bar, a fairly decent picnic grounds, and mood music from the American Legion band somehow attract hundreds of city-dwellers out to spend a day in the open...
Unsurpassed Prosperity. No such education was needed for the seven employees of Chang Kuo-liang, known for years in Shanghai as the Lungyen King. At his Unsurpassed Prosperity Shop at the corner of Canton and Fukien Roads, Chang had long sold the best dragon's-eyes or lungyen nuts (something like lichees) in the city, together with two patent medicines of his own invention: Ginseng Lung-yen Tonic Syrup and another lungyen tonic for menstrual troubles. Through wars, revolutions and even the Japanese occupation, Chang had prospered, planting his profits in Shanghai real estate and running his business...
...Communists reacted angrily. Last week Canton's Communist radio flatly announced: "Hong Kong is part of Chinese territory." Boasted Playwright Szema Wen-shen, deported chairman of the so-called Red Study Group: "We shall return soon to eliminate all reactionary elements...