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...basis, each of the 503,370 LeTourneau shares is worth about $35 in cash from the sale, plus the value of unsold assets in the part of the company LeTourneau retains. LeTourneau himself has no intention of retiring. He plans to go into new manufacturing ventures, which include a trackless, rubber-tired "Tournatrain," for use in deserts and jungles...
Commuters, unable to get trains, jammed the buses and trackless trolleys which were added in the emergency. Additional streetcars were run from Harvard Square and Andrew Square, carrying passengers from Cambridge to the Massachusetts Avenue station, and from Dor chester to Park...
...highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle whose rich soil could easily feed all Bolivia if the mountain Indians would only move there...
Central Brazil is a vast green wedge of almost unexplored land. Seventeenth-century Portuguese explorers staggered out of its jungles bringing tales of a great lost City of Gold in a Garden of Eden. Plunging into the trackless Mato Grosso (Thick Forest), such 20th century big-game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize...
...four thousand students (as was had on occasions), marching down Oxford and Regent Streets, across Piccadilly Circus and on through the center of London. This accompanied by "removing" of policeman's helmets, dousing them with water and other highly irregular actions--even pulling loose the trolley pole of trackless trolleys; an action which a student here now regrets...