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...docker had distinguished company in his assertion. Last week George Bernard Shaw came up with a belated version of Franklin Roosevelt's abandoned Passamaquoddy project of 1935. G.B.S. proposed harnessing the swirling tides in Scotland's narrow inlets to avert future crises. He added a petulant note: "My suggestions usually take 30 years to attract any attention...
...Smiles. In Manhattan, poultry producers gathered to try to avert "chaos" in the industry. Reason: wholesale prices were down to 30? a pound, yet retail prices were still as high as when wholesalers got 50? a pound. Most poultry raisers feared that the high prices and slackened retail buying would soon push the bottom out of the market...
...women over 20. Women will have a definite quota "prescribed by law" in the National Assembly and Legislative Yuan. A Bill of Rights written into the Constitution guarantees individual freedom and rights "except when it is necessary to prevent infringement of the freedom of other persons, avert an urgent crisis, maintain social order or promote public interests...
...less circumspect; it announced that Red units had fought marines at Anping, called the battle a consequence of U.S. interference in China. U.S. authorities noted that the convoy had been taking supplies not to Chinese Nationalists, but to a tripartite (Nationalist-Communist-U.S.) truce team trying to avert open civil war in the Peiping area...
Half a dozen other vessels were sunk, or beached to avert sinking; a third capital ship, the durable Jap Nagato, wallowed and sank. Nobody yet knew how many submarines were crushed. For a single bomb it was a dreadful toll...