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...Conservation Commissioner Swepson Earle hopefully inquired how many of his men had taken part in the capture. Sheriff Cooksey indignantly replied that just before the raid a conservation crew had taken their boat across the river, had refused to return and do their duty. Commissioner Earle immediately mobilized a fleet of launches, equipped one with a machine gun and a one-pound cannon and prepared to recoup lost glory by catching the next pack of poachers...
...pays a 7% to 10 % royalty to the Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard of New Jersey, Gulf. Before NRA, Manhattan motorists were more apt to ride on Venezuelan gasoline than...
...semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down to Rio." "Music Makes Me," "Orchids in the Moonlight," "Carioca." Fred Astaire was hired to dance as frequently as possible. A fleet of airplanes was engaged for a finale with showgirls in gauze uniforms capering on their wings. To play the lead in Flying Down to Rio, RKO wisely persuaded handsome Dolores Del Rio to come out of a year's retirement...
Died. Friedrich von Ingenohl, 76, retired German admiral, commander-in-chief of Germany's High Seas Fleet for the first seven months of the War; in Berlin. He was one of the "war culprits" whose extradition was unsuccessfully sought by the Allies...
...another preface Vice Admiral Suetsugu, Commander of the Japanese Fleet, warmly praises Dream Author Fukunaga. "As commander of the Imperial Combined Fleet," he writes, "I may say that if a naval engagement were won in the manner described I would be much satisfied, and if a man like Lieut. Commander Fukunaga were my Chief of Staff, I would feel assured of the outcome. Indeed his article not only will interest the Japanese public but will give many hints to naval experts...