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Author Ford's circuitous narrative begins in post-War London with his efforts to get a toehold in a world that had forgotten him while he was fighting for it. E. V. Lucas told him that he was not really English because he did not appreciate Punch. (He had served all through the War under his family name, Hueffer-his father was German-and changed it in 1919 for post-War reasons.) After a term of editing the English Review which he had founded in 1908, Ford retired to a tumbledown country cottage to live by writing and raising...
...tapestries, basket work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold, and hammerlock, he obtains zinc and copper (cheerfully left unexplained) and two radio tubes the savage With these and several score handmade batteries, he makes a radio set, listens happily to news of traffic deaths, business suicides, cosmetics and alimony...
...least one element in the Far North the airplane is regarded with strong disfavor: the big dogteam operators, who have been put nearly out of business. The dogteams first began to suffer when the airplane companies gained a toehold on the passenger and express business; but they still had the mail. Finally this year the air services were permitted to bid for the mail and two companies, Alaskan Airways and Pacific International Airways,* won all the contracts...
...corps of U. S. engineers, accountants and typists, shut his troops in a hotel suite, sat up many a night writing newly modified contracts. After strenuous haggling that lasted nearly a year. Col. Behn obtained ex-King Alfonso's then valuable signature, and, consequently, a potent toehold on the Continent...
...Insull buys from Mr. Fitkin is the electric and water service of 200 communities in 13 states, most of which are along the Atlantic seaboard. Although his new acquisitions add less than 100,000 customers to the several million he already has, the deal gives Mr. Insull his first toehold in Connecticut and Massachusetts and leaves Rhode Island the only State on the Atlantic seaboard which contains no Insull unit...