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...probably tell umeealik, the boss man, all about it. If the inspector decides to bring the guilty family down to Moose Factory on James Bay for trial that will be fine, they will get a ride in an airplane and a chance to see a whole street of "igloo-pak," the white men's houses...
Artillery on both sides of the Mekong poured shells into the mountains, jungle and straw-thatched villages on the other side. Thai planes raided the Indo-Chinese towns of Pak-sé, Suvarnakhet. French planes bombed the Thai towns of Prachinburi, Aranya. Military communiqués reported fierce engagements in the borderland forests, casualties mounting as high as 600 in a single clash. Both sides claimed victory, but after four days of fighting the French authorities admitted that their troops had retreated 50 miles, and Bangkok announced that the Thai flag had been raised over Cambodia...
...pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...
Tale of Bali escapes the lush romanticism of most South Sea island romances, will remind most readers of The Good Earth. Its central character is a good-natured, lusty young peasant named Pak, who is superstitious about religious matters but a resourceful realist about women, cockfights and politics...
Because the prince had appropriated his champion fighting cock and put out his brother's eyes for having an affair with a harem woman, Peasant Pak lies low during the fighting, wastes no time mourning his jasmine-scented leader. Realist Pak's patriotism is concentrated on his rice fields and chickens, his exciting second wife and his own neck...