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...taken there in a truck. I entered a large, obscure hall. There were many men and women gathered there-slaves like myself. I managed to escape . . . Several times I tried to slip aboard boats leaving for Africa. But the police were on my tracks. Nevertheless, I managed to stow away in a cargo ship and reached the Sudan. I was free...
...Stow-on-the-Wold Gloucestershire, England
...same can be said of the University's educational setup in 1952. Trapped between inflated costs and an endowment that refuses to budge beyond four million dollars, Colgate must stow away its ambitious expansion plans while it tries to keep its budget balanced...
Ferguson's immediate problem was to stay in business. He had no plant, but he hastily built one near Detroit, and for the first time began producing his own machines in the U.S. He ran the works, by remote control, from his enormous English stone mansion near Stow on the Wold, Gloucester. In 1949, young Henry called on him to try to settle their differences. Ferguson set such stiff terms that Ford gave up. Finally, in Manhattan's federal court last year, the trial began...
...clock Friday afternoon. Clement Attlee «went to Buck-.ingham Palace to hand King George VI his resignation as Prime Minister. His three-week. Truman-style tour through the provinces had left him pale and exhausted. Three nights before, he had made his last campaign speech in Waltham-stow and sat on the platform afterwards with head in hand, too beaten to do more than stare in mild astonishment as a rabble-rousing platform mate ranted about "millions in America who can't afford to buy butter." Election night he went to a local Socialist club to hear...