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...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
Nippon Yusen Kaisha is a big if not rich province in the business empire of the Iwasaki, Japan's No. 2 industrial family. Under the family trade name, Mitsubishi ("Three Diamonds," derived from their crest), they own steel works, shipbuilding plants, chemical, electrical equipment and airplane factories, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, urban real estate. As industrial pioneers they rank ahead of the omnipotent house of Mitsui, Japan's No. 1 family. But unlike the ancient house of Mitsui, the Iwasaki fortune dates only from Japan's first industrial stirrings 60 years ago. And unlike the Mitsui...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...
...railway in Richmond, Va. Said he later: "I believed in myself and staked a fortune. All hands worked with a vengeance. . . . The morning we tried the first trolley up the steepest grade, it crept up the 10% slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass meeting demanding electric instead of mule railways, posters read: "Lincoln set the Negroes free. Sprague has set the Mule free...
...wavelike rhythm underruns the lives of the Lunns, father and two sons. From troughs of idleness or unprofitable fishing caused by storms or glutted markets, they rise suddenly to crests of thrilling sea treasure-hunts with cod lines, lobster pots, salmon nets. The transition from crest to crest is marked by dull periods when the men's blood runs slow with the tedium of making a living. Then a glimpse of what the Fosdycks are out after, or a chance lobster hooked on a cod line starts the blood boiling up. It boils up first in devil-may-care Marney...