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...able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
...calm under the harsh Riviera sun. Eighty-two children crowded the small 30-ft. motor launch Annamaria as it pulled out from the little seashore town of Loana. With shrill chatter and singing, the children (aged ten to twelve) set forth with six women guardians and three crewmen for the isle of Gallinaria, six miles away...
...work her life's mission, Esmerelda first had to give up her most prized possession--the use of her motor. Immobile, she stood for months, swaying gently in the night breezes, beside Radcliffe's Briggs Hall...
Visitors, on entering, found themselves dodging a whirling lighthouse powered by an old Victrola motor. They moved on to a "Hall of Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...
...make than Ferguson paid for them. So Breech ended the contract, as of June 30. Ernie Breech also had a personal interest in tractors. Henry II had lured high-priced men like Breech into the company by giving them stock in a new farm-equipment company, the Dearborn Motors Corp. Thus the personal fortunes of the top Ford officials depended on Ford's ability to make and sell a tractor of its own. Cut off by Ford, Harry Ferguson had managed to set up a manufacturing arrangement in England with Standard Motor...