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Thebaud stood into the tide. It was an ebb tide, running strong, but when she turned she had it full on her beam, washing her toward the mark. The seas were lifting her forward, too. The eleven minutes she gained on that leg gave her a ten minute lead that won the race and the series for her: 2-0. And at the Gloucester City Hall, Mayor John Parker gave to the men of Thebaud the new cup Sir Thomas Lipton had put up for the series...
...During the first half of the year. U. S. imports of sugar dropped 30% from 3,400,000 to 2,400,000. But imports from Cuba tumbled more than 50% from 2,200,000 to 1,000,000. And Cuban business, said reports last week, is at the lowest ebb for at least six years...
Best evidence of the immediate status of business is the low ebb of production.* According to the Department of Commerce estimate made public last week, 1,325 planes for civil use and 359 for military use were manufactured in the first half-year. In the same period of 1929 the output was 2,854 civil craft, 527 military. For all of last year, 5,537 civil, 677 military...
Second Race. The five big yachts swept down on the starting line in a bunch, their sails snapping in the smart breeze. Weetamoe and Enterprise kept over toward the Long Island shore where the tide was beginning to ebb and help them along. The race was between them, but Vanitie decided it. Gerard Lambert, at Vanitie's wheel, is a member of the Weetamoe syndicate. Vanitie is Weetamoe's trial horse. So whenever he could in the long thrash on the wind, Lambert slipped up and took Enterprise's wind, letting Weetamoe slip ahead...
...Drury.fairly smothered the committee with Provincial statistics to prove that, in 1922 and 1923 when Ontario had Prohibition, death and crime were on the ebb; that, since 1928 under the present system, death and crime are on the rise...