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...daughter of the wealthy and picturesque Crocker family of San Francisco, detailing her travels in the Far East, her love affairs with a Japanese baron, a Chinese tyrant, a Borneo chieftain and a four-yard boa constrictor named Kaa. Aimee Crocker first became aware of the lure of the Orient when, at the age of 10, she demanded that her mother buy her an elaborate Chinese bed that she saw in San Francisco. "Very young indeed was I.'' she writes, "when the finger of the East reached out across the Pacific and touched me." No sooner...
...named Charles Brenner. On the voyage from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors...
...Prehistorian's Interpretation of Diffusion." Although Professor Childe started out by saying: "Discussions of diffusion are apt to degenerate into combats where in only dust is diffused . . ." he made some very definite comments concerning the influence of environmental factors in aiding intercourse between the urban civilizations of the early Orient...
With the identity of the royal party still a close secret, His Majesty boarded the Orient Express for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Clear across France the train's route was guarded by French soldiers standing within sight of each other along the roadbed...
...spot markets scattered throughout the cotton belt the morning's desultory dickering petered out. In Britain the Liverpool Cotton Market had closed for the day, but traders would get the U. S. cotton news after the races and the cricket matches. In Bombay, Shanghai, Osaka the Orient's cotton men roused themselves from bed or stirred impatiently in club chairs. In Egypt, where the world's finest cotton is grown on the banks of the Nile, the cotton men of Alexandria waited dinner...