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Annie, now 45, got her start as a girl of 18 when she shared a boat with her father for a year. From then on, she fished alone. She can handle her own gear: 32 lines for cod, 100 lobster pots (most of which she made herself), eight nets for herring, mackerel and other ground fish, two rowboats and a 23-foot motorboat. She first qualified for the Dominion government fishing bounty* 17 years ago, has just got her latest $8.75 check for the 5,000 pounds of fish she caught...
...week at Birmingham. Though it has not yet completed its bench tests, London newspapers hailed the gas turbine as the advance guard of a power revolution. A vehicle driven by a gas turbine, the experts explained, would have no cooling system, no gearshift (except for reversing and extra-low gear), no continuous ignition system. It would be almost vibrationless, would need little lubrication, and would burn low-priced fuel such as kerosene or diesel...
...Jubilee campaign shifted into high gear last week when Publicity Director A. Werner Pleus '51 introduced two alligators, male and female, into the Union to help sell Yardlings on the idea of going to the Jubilee...
Dynamic last-minute rallies featured three intramural ballgames yesterday as the House League continued in high gear...
...world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor it began to move into high gear. On February 25, 1943, it was reorganized with a director [and] assistant, two grand divisions of five sections each, a staff of geographers and philologians, and a working force of 110 altogether. During the war years it naturally gave most of its attention to foreign place names, for the Army...