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...plane (which will fly the diamonds to safety) in a grass basket suspended from a cable across a treacherous ravine, the basket's supports are shot away from the cable pulley. Undaunted, she grasps the pulley with her bare hands and completes the slide with her precious cargo...
...Mediterranean campaigns, armed merchant-cruising with convoys. Besides, much of the tonnage is unsuitable for the task of supplying Britain: some ships are inland water vessels, others were used before the war for the trans-Channel trade. Much of the tonnage of big passenger liners is not usable cargo space. And many ships have specific jobs they cannot leave in distant parts of the world. According to London estimates, all these factors reduce tonnage which can actually be used to carry life-stuffs and death-stuffs to Britain...
...Nazi air onslaught against Eire and possibly an invasion. Great Britain might find itself attacked on a great new front, with the sea lanes virtually impassable. In any event, Nazi bombing and sea fighting would make it impossible for Eire to continue to ship to Britain an annual cargo of approximately $100,000,000 worth of food...
First Mr. Roosevelt announced that the Red Sea would not be considered a war area, and therefore open to American shipping. With Nazi troops entrenched in North Africa, this comes dangerously close to making unconvoyed American cargo ships vulnerable to Nazi torpedoes. Yesterday he disclosed to his press conference that American protectorate Greenland "may now be occupied by the Axis powers." Whether this is founded or unfounded, the American public gets a look at the same sort of balloon they saw during the Neutrality Act discussion, when he announced to the papers that he had sighted a submarine...
Problem. In the Delaware River, a cargo of gravel shifted suddenly in a steel barge. The barge turned over on a wooden scow beside it; the two clamped deck to deck like the shells of a clam (see cut). Last week rivermen still wondered how to get them apart...