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...Wales. He has also passed as a common laborer in the lower districts of Germany. He believes that the gentleman scholar of the operations of economic laws falls to get many important factors visible only to those who feel the effects of the law. He has posed as a dock hand, a builder, and a miner. Recently he investigated Soviet Russia, but as an author, because of the danger of detection in case of a poor impersonation...
...sure of themselves. A University cox is also generally more apt to get in accidents while on practice rows than a greenhorn; a few years ago a University cox ran his boat right up on the float so that the number 2 man could step out on the dock with no trouble...
...trip he started last week is a three-month world cruise arranged by Raymond-Whitcomb aboard the Norwegian Stella Polaris. Four dozen other Americans will be in the party. The ship, as it lay moored to a Brooklyn dock last week, contained 5,000 bottles of spirits, kegs of beer piled deck high, 55,000 bottles of vintage wine...
Second to none is the Port of New York, whose city-owned piers are leased to shipping lines from the four corners of the earth. As in many another municipal transaction, Tammany Hall manages to get a crooked finger into dock-leasing. Last week New Yorkers learned why travelers must go all the way to the Army base pier at the foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, to sail on the fastest transatlantic vessels in the world-the North German Lloyd's Bremen and Europa* Strapping big Heinrich Schuengel, who is for N. G. L. what humorous little Sir Thomas...
...experts ponder would happen to No. 534 if left ur on the ways. Already she is in constant shoring up to prevent sa the fabric. It was suggested that at least the stern might be hurried to coi so that the vessel might be floated. Tied up at dock, she has better chance standing the unkind elements and the unkinder financial weather...