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...stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave a definite inkling of what might happen very soon. In fact Joe might well have quit then if it had not been that he was unwilling to leave his friends in the lurch. This year however he never signed a contract and though it was hoped that he might turn up late, the worst was feared...
...fleet and get a mail contract thrown in." To that effect was the high-pressure sales-talk of the U. S. Shipping Board when it advertised its merchant ships. Lured by the lucrative lagniappe, the United States Lines, the Mississippi Shipping Co. and several other corporations contracted to buy fleets and straightway confidently filed applications for mail contracts. The fleets were handed over promptly, but the mail contracts, purporting to "foster U. S. shipping," lingered...
...exploded, injuring human attendants. Another explosion followed a similar experiment. Last week under the same circumstances there was a third explosion. Deduction: static electricity from the fighty cat's fur ignited the lethal gas. Authorities considered having the Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. perform further executions under contract...
...from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester. They harked back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years ago by a Mrs. John Amadio against her husband-flutist. Soprano Austral is now the second Mrs. Amadio. That, declared Dean Ede, the Church of England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts, festivals, bazaars. Her hobbies of reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally separated from my wife...
...week was ready to test-fly the British dirigible R-100, ordered by the British government. (The British Air Ministry itself is building the Commonwealth's other dirigible, R-101.) When the Government accepts the R-100 it will immediately resell her to Airship Guarantee Co. at half the contract price on condition that she will be used on experimental long-distance passenger flights within the Empire. (The R-101 is destined for trans-Atlantic service...