Word: consulate
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There were old and great Islandian families, but none were vastly wealthy, and none knew want. They were free from venereal diseases, and very vigilant lest foreigners import them. They felt a reverence for the soil in which the esthetic and the utilitarian were inseparable. When Consul Lang tried to sell them on the time-saving uses of U.S. farm machinery, they were far less interested in time-saving than in the indecent strain which would be put on their horses...
...sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats. By 1939, A.J. was making Eurekas not only for the U.S. Navy, but for the British and Finland (he was made Finland's New Orleans consul, for "services rendered"). Last year his sales were over $1,000,000 a month. His new City Park Avenue plant- "the largest boat-building plant under one roof"-was dedicated last summer with a smashing Navy demonstration of what Higgins Industries products could do. Main Higgins products...
...General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork. In 168 B.C. the Consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus, about to lead the Romans to victory over the Macedonians, had made a speech to his people. For years the speech had hung on War Department doors, gathering dust and flyspecks. Franklin Roosevelt brushed the flyspecks off Lucius Aemilius, and quoted...
...women, said the President] who know who are leading the armies into Macedonia, where their camps ought to be placed, what strategical positions ought to be occupied. . . . They not only lay down what ought to be done, but when anything is done contrary to their opinion they arraign the consul as though he were being impeached...
...Consul General of Egypt...