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...Thebaud, most famed of U.S. fishing schooners. Built to sail in weather that would blow the paint off her, the Gertrude L. Thebaud met Nova Scotia's older, bigger Bluenose in three salt-sprayed races, won once, lost twice. In her day she has brought back many a load of cod and halibut. Now, with her white hull painted drab grey, she will patrol the Atlantic Coast listening for lurking subs...
Pressed down by the biggest Federal tax load in history, many a U.S. citizen has been looking hopefully for tax relief from the states, such as was granted by New York and South Dakota on 1941 incomes.* Last week, although New York's Governor-elect Thomas E. Dewey hinted he might make some further tax reductions, a meeting of the Tax Institute of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce sounded a note of warning against too much optimism...
...They will have to handle a 10-15% greater load next year-meaning to move their heavier trains faster than ever before...
...Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about 20, carrying two great loads at the ends of a pole. Each was more than I would choose to carry on a good road. He was nearing the top of a steep slope when we met him. I carried his load for the last lap of the climb and was glad when the ordeal...
...Brazil by flying strategic materials in and out of Rio (two months ago he formed a $500,000 subsidiary, one-third owned by Brazil's famed Taves family). In addition his year-old British West Indian Airways has relieved the hard-pressed West Indies by carrying an average load of 1,700 passengers, 15,000 Ib. of express, 2,300 Ib. of mail a month out of Port of Spain, Barbados, Tobago...