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...length we were joined by four other lifeboats which were towed by a small motor boat. Somebody shouted at me from one of these boats: "Have you seen my wife?" And then, and not till then, so selfish is man, did J realize how lucky I was to have no one to ask after, and what this ghastly business would mean to some...
...soaked waste to the ship's fuel tanks. When all was ready, Very signal pistols and long matches were used to touch off the fire everywhere at once. Within an hour of ordering his ship's destruction, Captain Daehne slid last down a rope into his motor launch, confident that no Briton could board what soon became a sinking inferno...
...husky, smiling Warren Courtland Mac Farlane. In 1933, when Messrs. Peek and Johnson were sowing the seeds of the New Deal, the accident of Depression put Minneapolis-Moline $1,541,000 in the red and a motor accident broke President Mac Farlane's back. Two years later Minneapolis-Moline netted $170,000, and indomitable President Mac Farlane, in his wheel chair, flew 15,000 miles around South America drumming up business. In 1938 Minneapolis-Moline had a profit of $727,000, and President Mac Farlane was riding horses for amusement...
...soon after dawn as is seemly, the pajama-clad small fry whoop into "Grandpa's" bedroom, bounce on his bed, shout "Merry Christmas," and dive for the bulging red stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. After breakfast (smoked sausages and scrambled eggs) the President and the immediate family motor around old Lafayette Square to the grey granite St. Thomas Episcopal Church...
...eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy, and the son retaliated by contributing...