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...were enough business orders from Russia and Red China to wipe out the Lancashire textile slump. Then Mikhail V. Nesterov, head of Russia's Chamber of Commerce, oozing cooperation and coexistence, offered to double or triple Russia's imports. He offered to buy British textiles, spices and herring, French electrical equipment and ships, Dutch tin, Belgian rayon, German, Italian and Japanese products. In return Russia would sell grains, coal, manganese and timber...
...variations depend a little on the "feel" of the individual communities. One is a summer colony where most civic decisions depend on "what the summer people think"; another is a fishing village where life is only as good as the last herring catch; still another, a thriving granite center 25 years ago, is now an apathetic ghost town. Mrs. Henrichsen's chief satisfaction is that a clannish, clammish people have opened their hearts to her. She prizes most one oblique Maine compliment: "I don't care for you," said a woman on whom she was calling-and Preacher...
Fragrant Jewelry. Scented synthetic pearls are being market tested in Sandefjord, Norway by Chemist Joseph Shott and Businessman Olav Edlund. The pearls, which are made from herring scales, are infused with perfume, and the scent lasts three years. Probable retail price in U.S. for a string...
Cronin recognized the value of this arduous work, but when a shrewd Scotsman from whose throat he had neatly extracted a herring bone gave him a stock-market tip, he was dazzled by the chance to get rich quick. Planking down his hard-earned savings of ?100, he saw them swell miraculously to ?1,000 in a few days. But he was out on the moors, delivering a baby, when his stock crashed, leaving him ?7. Cronin decided that he had learned another priceless lesson; he dug into his pocket to buy the newborn baby a silver mug, inscribed with...
...just back from electioneering in Florida, to tangle with the waiting Lewis. Taft said that he was all for a federal mine safety law, but mine safety had nothing to do with the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Lewis' statement is entirely irrelevant . . . entirely untrue ... a complete red herring...