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...Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
...Union in a report to party bosses had recently given the following partial breakdown of unemployment: construction workers, 31,000 (95%); cigarette factory workers, 30,000 (75%); wharf coolies, 10,000 (32%); merchant seamen, 20,000; shop & sales clerks, 20,000. He admitted widespread unemployment in the papermaking, matchmaking, silk-weaving, rubber and cotton textile industries. On the basis of these figures, Hong Kong observers reckoned that 600,000 people were close to starvation in Shanghai...
...Silk & Tweed. In spite of his protective coloration, Trinidad police began to take a lively interest in Fisherman Singh. An indignant Venezuelan had come to town to report that three of his relatives had shipped out of Port-of-Spain last month bound for Venezuela with a $3,000 cargo of cloth and had never been seen again. The police raided the home of Singh's wife and son, found some silk and tweeds of the same pattern as those bought by the missing Venezuelans. They also found the outboard motor and fishing equipment of one of the first...
...visiting Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his wife, the Begum, were learning about the American way of life in & around Chicago. One day the Begum, wearing her long-flowing red silk garara, visited a National Tea Co. market, shopped as carefully as any U.S. housewife, rolled a cart of groceries to the check-out counter...
...current circus has reached new heights of improbability. There is a man called Unus, introduced with "the world will never see his likes again." Unus appears from the side door wearing a grey silk hat, grey trousers, grey tails, and white gloves. As if this weren't enough, he then stands on his forefinger...