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...this night, Madame Chiang revealed the world ideal that drives her. She spoke of two concepts, expressed in Chinese as ho-tsung (concerted effort), and lien-heng (imperialism), called up from China's tapestried past a lesson for the world of tomorrow...
Against veteran Boy-Wonder Orson Welles, the U.S. filed an income-tax lien for $31,285.92 allegedly owing from...
...dropped to 75?. Old Man Towne hung on: "Hit's wuth a dollar and I aim to git a dollar." He mortgaged his crop, his next year's crop, his 20,000 acres of lien-free land. Next year the Delta went broke. Towne's banker wired that he would have to sell. Towne wired back "NO." "I ain't aiming to sell hit fer less'n hit's wuth," he said. "But," said the banker, "all it's worth is what the market says it is." "The market is them New York...
Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...
...from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien, a Nanking shopkeeper, Ling Tan learned that where these eggs fell in the city, all was reduced to dust; even people were taken apart "as though they, too, were made of clay." Soon Ling Tan went into the city and saw it with his own eyes, and when his youngest...