Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close of the second Tarzan novel-The Return of Tarzan (1915)-the ape-man was married to Miss Jane Porter of Baltimore, Md. by the latter's father, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter. The ceremony took place in the little cabin on the African coast where Tarzan was born, and through it Jane became Lady Greystoke of England, since Tarzan was a nobleman by birth...
...over the U.S., "from boardrooms to barrooms" Luckman had encountered it. The talkers were not measuring the U.S. economy, but "their own fever chart"-using a special kind of emotional arithmetic, adding two and two to get zero. Luckman preferred to add U.S. employment of 59 million (still close to its alltime high), savings of $200 billion and a purchasing power 53% higher than prewar. "Too many . . . have accepted the jabber-jitter estimates of what is wrong with America, instead of finding out . . . what is right...
...Turkey, where close trading is a centuries-old art imbibed with mother's milk, the No. 1 mule trader is squat, swarthy Mahmout Safyurtlu. Last year, when Mahmout heard that EGA would pay for several thousand mules for Greece, he perked up his ears. Mahmout scurried to Athens, where he learned that the mules must be small, strong, good at climbing hills, not less than three years old, not more than nine, and 80% of them younger than seven...
...deal. EGA estimated that he would still gross about 153,765 drachmas ($15.25) a mule, but Mahmout, who had been doing a lot of traveling, thought the profit figure would be pared sharply by his expenses. Missouri's Ferd Owen agreed. Said he: "It was a pretty close deal. I don't expect to make much on it, but I think the Turk will make even less...
...scuttling about at night releasing the animals the prince has captured by day. This lands him in a peck of trouble with the prince and a pallid little flirtation with the princess. Meanwhile, taking a cue from Gail's amateur camera work, the picture provides some good professional close-ups of unusual birds, beasts, and reptiles at work and at play...