CHAPTER I

ON THE HOUSEBOAT

"Say, Tom, what's that big thing coming down the river?"

"I'm sure I don't know, Sam. It's big enough to be a house." replied Tom Rover.

"Maybe it is a house," came from Dick Rover, who was standing beside his brothers on the rear deck of the houseboat which was taking them down the Mississippi River.

"A house?" broke in a distinctly German voice. "Did you mean to said dere vos a house floating der rifer town, Dick Rofer?"

"Why not, Hansy, my boy?" replied fun-loving Tom Rover, before his big brother could answer. "Hasn't a house got a right to take a float if it wants to? Perhaps it's out for its health."

"Ach, you vos choking, Tom!" cried Hans Mueller. "Of a house been der rifer on, dere peen somedings wrong mit him alretty."

"It's a lumber raft, Hans," said Dick. "And a whopping big one, too," he added, as he took another look at the object that was approaching the houseboat.

"Hope it doesn't give us such a close shave as that raft we met two days ago," said Sam anxiously. "I was almost certain they were going to run into us."

"They have got no business to run so close to this houseboat," grumbled Tom. "They know well enough that we can't turn out of our course very well. I think some of those lumbermen are the toughest kind of citizens."

"If they get too close, I'll shout a warning through the megaphone," went on Dick, after a brief pause. "It certainly does look as if they intended to crowd us," he continued anxiously. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was it they saw in the disatance
2. What did they think it was?
3. What were they on when they saw it?
4. And where was it?
5. Who was first to suggest what it might be?
6. Who was first to agree with him?
7. Did anyone doubt the were right?
8. Who disagreed?
9. What was Tom's relation to Dick?
10. Who was older?
11. What was Sam's mood?
12. Why ?
13. Who tried to calm his fears?
Answer: 1. A lumber raft.
2. A house
3. A houseboat
4. the Mississippi River.
5. Tom Rover
6. Dick Rover
7. Yes
8. Hansy
9. His brother.
10. unknown
11. Anxious.
12. He feared they would run in to them.
13. Dick

Problem: "We're going to move," Jimmy said to Mr. James,her teacher, with tears in her eyes. "Dad lost his job and now we don't have enough money to live in our house." Pam was walking by and just heard Jimmy's talk with Mr.James. In the lunchroom Pam met Carol and said, "I've got something to tell you about Jimmy." As she started to tell Carol about Jimmy's dad, several other classmates stopped to listen. Pam felt bad telling what she had heard but she went on anyway. After school, Pam saw some of her classmates talking to Jimmy. "Where does your dad work?" one of the boys asked. Jimmy's face turned red. She left without answering. Pam felt terrible, because she didn't mean to hurt Jimmy. And she hadn't thought that some of the classmates would make jokes and laugh at Jimmy about her father's losing the job. Pam didn't know what she could do to help Jimmy.
1. Who was mobing
2. Why?
3. who did his teacher tell?
4. Who was the girl who overheard?
5. Who did Pam tell?
6. what did a boy ask Jimmy?
7. What did Jimmy feel like after that?
8. was there anyway Pam could help Jimmy
9. Where did Pam talk to Caro
Answer: 1. Jimmy
2. his dad lost his job
3. no one
4. Pam
5. Carol
6. "Where does your dad work?"
7. embarrassed
8. no
9. In the lunchroom

question: (AOL Autos) -- With car companies going in into bankruptcy and shedding famous names left and right, it's important to remember that today's automotive titans started out as tiny startups, not unlike Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

General Motors was almost called International Motors Co.

Names like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota and Porsche call to mind the huge corporate successes of the past and the great automotive families that survive today.

But behind every brand name, there is a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist. Most of the time, they gave their name to the companies. And that fame was often about all they ended up with.

David Buick, who invented the overhead valve engine, founded the Buick Motor Car Co. in 1903. William C. Durant, the industrialist who would eventually found GM, took over the company in 1904, when it ran into financial trouble.

Buick stayed on as a director, but left in 1908, never making much money from the enterprise. He reportedly died in 1929, unable to afford one of his cars.

Durant kept the name for one of his company divisions and for the car, even though he worried that people might pronounce it "Boo-ick," according to one author. Strangely enough, the man who practically created General Motors single-handedly never really liked the idea of a 'Durant' car.

In another example, Robert Hupp invented the Hupmobile,'a two-seat runabout, in 1908. But he sold his stock in his Hupp Motor Car Company in 1911. He turned around and founded the Hupp Corp. that same year. Investors in his first firm took him to court to make him drop the "Hupp" from his new company's name and they won. His own automotive glory quickly faded, although the Hupmobile survived until the 1940s.
1. What company was almost call International Motors?
2. Who invented the overhead valve engine?
3. What company did he found?
4. Who took over the company?
5. When did this happen?
6. What did Buick do after that?
7. Did he become rich?
8. When did he die?
9. What did Durant worry about Buick?
10. What did he worry it would be pronounced?
11. Who invented the Hupmobile?
12. And when?
13. When did the Hupmobile die?
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answer:
1. General Motors
2. David Buick
3. Buick Motor Car Co
4. William C. Durant
5. 1904
6. stayed on as a director
7. no
8. 1929
9. mispronounciations
10. "Boo-ick,"
11. Robert Hupp
12. 1908
13. 1940s