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Her hull, rigging and spars sheathed in ice, the schooner Mary E. O'Hara, of Boston, turned tail to the fishing banks last week and headed for home. On a dark night, in near-zero weather, she thrashed into Boston Channel. A numbed lookout in the bow suddenly shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Voyage | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

One other death was added to the toll of 19 when it was learned later that the watchman on the barge had been knocked into the sea by the collision. For Boston's fishing fleet it was the worst disaster since the foundering of the schooner Eleanor Nicker son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Voyage | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

As long ago as last July, British soldiers & sailors raided Saint-Malo in broad daylight (TIME, July 8). AP's William Mc-Gaffin, arriving in New York from London last week, told of at least nine sorties into German-held France by British volunteer motorcyclists. Slipping across the Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Invasion & Counter-Invasion | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

An executive of U. S. Steel, left out of a fishing trip because he snored, invented an anti-snorer to wake him up when he rolled on his back.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1940, The First Year of War Economy | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

For ten years steel's most spectacular moneymaker was cigar-chewing Ernest Weir, whose modern mills put competition back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1940, The First Year of War Economy | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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