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...dizzy crags and bleak castle ramparts above the winding Rhine last week Germans lit defiant bonfires, marked the tenth anniversary of French occupation of the Ruhr, a move which Germans always interpreted as a French attempt to seize the left bank of the Rhine...
...Piccard children, whom he left behind in Brussels last week as he started a tour of the Western Hemisphere to lecture. Mme Piccard, grumping bitterly over the interruption of her home life, and two of their five children accompanied him to Paris, through the gritty tunnels of Normandy to bleak Le Havre, waved forlornly as a big liner carried their hero down the barren harbor toward the vast Atlantic. Last they saw of him was his long arms gyrating, the wind blowing his wild hair crazily...
...richer blessing can fill your own hearts than the consciousness on some bleak winter's evening that your generosity has lighted a fire upon some family's hearth that otherwise would be black and cold and has spread some family table with food where otherwise children would be wanting. I wish my last word to you to be the word GIVE...
Publicity-seeking George R. Hutchinson would have beamed with delight had he seen the front-page space he occupied in the U. S. Press last week when he and his "flying family" were wrecked, then rescued from Greenland's bleak eastern coast. But he must have made a wry face over such comments...
...disgorge her Saskatchewan. Alberta and Manitoba wheat to European markets (TIME, Sept. 14). Last year's two test shipments of wheat out of Churchill, totaling 500,000 bushels, were wholly successful. The S. S. Farnsworth, first test ship, passing out of Hudson Bay by Hudson Strait under the bleak heel of Baffin Land, reached the Port of London in 16 days. This year 3,000,000 bushels of wheat are booked to go in 16 ships from Churchill's high-class modern elevator dock...