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...September, Rio's board of directors had assumed full administrative control, and FSA had become only a lien holder. Then, in January 1945, Manager Tayloe walked proudly into the FSA office in Dallas with a check for $933,000. The entire federal mortgage had been paid off in three years, 47 years before it was due; the tenants were happy and reasonably prosperous, and the corporation had enough cash in the till to donate $20,000 to Texas agricultural experimenters...
Internal Revenue agents slapped a lien on belongings of Edna E. Booten. income tax consultant, charged that she was delinquent $1,450 in paying her taxes. In Detroit, firemen of the 12th Street station vainly battled a blaze in their own quarters, finally dashed away and telephoned the fire department...
Errol Flynn got into the trouble news again. The U.S. filed a tax lien against him for $121,858 allegedly owing on last year's income. Sean, his two-and-a-half-year-old son, got his foot caught in a drainpipe in Newport (where he was winding up the summer with his mother, Lili Damita), had to be sawed free by police and firemen...
...week's end Sun Lien-chung's drive from the south had taken Kungan, the main Japanese forward base, recovered Nanhsien and Nanhsian on the northern shore of Tungting Lake and was forging on to the river. Chen Cheng had driven to the south bank within sight of Ichang, and eliminated the last Japanese ferry head...
More than 2,000 years ago in feudal China, the powerful state of Ts'in dominated six weaker kingdoms. Ts'in conceived the principle of lien-heng, and moved to swallow up its neighbors. The weaker kingdoms gave only lip service to their pledges of ho-tsung, failed to band themselves together for mutual protection. One by one they were attacked and destroyed by the kingdom...