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...Last week Secretary Adams' Battle & Scouting Forces, with lights out, radios muffled and guns manned, played hide-&-seek on the broad Pacific as they executed Fleet Problem No. 14 (TIME...
Manufacturers of binoculars, rope, paint, varnish, furniture, mattresses, hammocks, Diesel engines and fire extinguishers told how the Navy was making these same articles for the fleet at increased costs to the taxpayer. That the Government Printing Office should manufacture ink, paste and mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine...
Both series-Cuba Cup for star boat skippers who finished first or second in their fleet the year before, Bacardi Cup for all star boat skippers who feel like entering-are decided by points, after three races. Somehow or other, Cuban yachtsmen who have the advantage of sailing on home waters seldom acquire many points. U. S. skippers-Adrian Iselin II, Paul and Cornelius Shields, Harkness Edwards, a jolly Pittsburgher who won the Cuba Cup last year, Edwin, Jahncke, son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Jahncke-were well in front last week by the time the boats started...
Star boats-there are 940 of them, in 68 fleets in 28 countries, at least one fleet on every continent-are the largest class of one-design racing yachts in the world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet...
...prices slightly one day fortnight ago. Another dealer learned about it, shaded his prices a trifle more. The movement spread quickly throughout the city. By evening tire prices had been slashed as much as 56%. All dealers did a roaring but highly unprofitable business as private owners and truck fleet operators jammed in to buy tires for the next two or three years. Next day the big Akron rubber companies wired stern orders for the skirmish to cease. Back up went Cleveland's tire prices even faster than they had come down...