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...wolflike howls of Huskies still echo through northern hamlets in the long nights. Yet even Aklavik, well above the Arctic Circle, has 20 cars to substitute for dog sleds. Elsewhere in the North there are now nearly 4,000 licensed motor vehicles, though roads are still scattered. Travel to remote areas used to take months. Planes have brought any place in the area within a few hours of Edmonton...
Down off the southern coast of China, about an hour and a half from Hong Kong by small motor launch, sits the little island of Macao. It gets wet in the rainy season and hot in any season. Its population is more varied than that of New York City. For years it has been a noisy, busy trading center through which the West did business with the East, and both made money. No adventurer worth his 38 hasn't been there sometime. Along the South China coast they say that all roads lead to Macao. It seems a shame that...
...rounded out the cast with a glassy-eyed, crooked, gambling-hall owner surrounded by inscrutable orientals who paddle after him and stab nice but clever international policemen. This crew wades through the plot outlined in formula number six, involving money, beautiful women, money, diamond necklaces, money, dice games, money, motor yachts, and money...
When the returns were all in, Ford Motor Co., which won last year's test with a Lincoln, was the winner again. Its Mercury Monterey racked up 59.712 ton-miles per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by mileage, and divided by gallons of gas consumed). On the basis of actual miles per gallon, a figure that means much more to the average motorist, the four-cylinder Henry J Corsair took the cake with 30.856; Studebaker's six-cylinder Champion was second with 27.822 miles per gallon...
...Motor Vehicle Registrar, every inspector, and police will be on the highways May 1. and all operators of uninspected cars will be prosecuted...